IVIV reception: "how forty years ago in 1969 the whole peace and love trip started to wither on the vine"

[Mark Kohut]

My respect for Pynchon's social antennae are such that I think he saw/felt
all this below, and probably more, as the answer awaited at the end of Lot 49 came and then left. 

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV reception: "how forty years ago in 1969 the whole peace and love trip started to wither on the vine"
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 1:37 PM
> "The other bit that they don't seem
> to want to talk about is how forty years ago in 1969 the
> whole peace and love trip started to wither on the vine. Not
> only did that year mark the ascension of Richard Nixon to
> the throne in Washington, but the Prince of Darkness
> himself, Ronald Ray-guns, had been governor of California
> since 1967. Happy Ronnie, who was only glad to help finger
> Commies in the fifties for Joe McCarthy and his
> Un-Americans, did his best to fight free love, free speech,
> and all those other ungodly behaviours those long haired
> layabouts were engaging in. By the time 1969 washed up on
> the beach in California, heads were already looking over
> their shoulders to see where the long arm of the law was
> every time they lit up a joint. Of course, with paranoia
> being such a bosom buddy of most drugs to begin with it
> didn't take much to fuel the massive rip tides of mistrust
> that started pulling folks under in the late sixties."
> 
> http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/
>