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

[Doug Millison]

I give Pynchon credit for an awful lot (and agree with you here), but  
even I wonder if he could have foreseen this headline I just saw at  
The Huffington Post:

PHOTOS: Disgraced Ex-GOP Leader Tom Delay Rehearses For 'Dancing With  
The Stars'

The photo is pretty scary, the one they had on the home page at least.  
He's got that Tube reality sparkle.  Makes Pynchon's Late Late Late  
Show in the Watts essay look, well…quite a contrast, that's for sure….

Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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.
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>> "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."
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>> http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/
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