IVIV touch

[malignd at aol.com]

Can't you please get over referring to "The Man"?

Gotta agree with Mark the K on the importance of these special, rare 
moments when characters touch in Pynchon's fiction, the skin interface 
seems an important one in his fiction. 
 
I've known some hard-charging professional women in my lifetime, a high 
school classmate became assistant DA in a rural Arizona county, and I 
don't think Penny reduces easily to that single dimension.  She's 
similar in some ways to Doc, enjoying her "hippie" kicks and not 
letting that get in the way of working her straight job as a cog in the 
big Justice wheel. The 1970s made it obvious, to me at least, that 
people could smoke pot and have long hair and listen to rock 'n' roll 
and otherwise look the part of a hippie and still be working for The 
Man.  That was the "Me Generation" after all, when people seemed to  
decide to forget all that political nonsense and focus instead on 
personal pleasure. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 11:16 am
Subject: IVIV touch


Gotta agree with Mark the K on the importance of these special, rare 
moments when characters touch in Pynchon's fiction, the skin interface 
seems an important one in his fiction. 
 
I've known some hard-charging professional women in my lifetime, a high 
school classmate became assistant DA in a rural Arizona county, and I 
don't think Penny reduces easily to that single dimension.  She's 
similar in some ways to Doc, enjoying her "hippie" kicks and not 
letting that get in the way of working her straight job as a cog in the 
big Justice wheel. The 1970s made it obvious, to me at least, that 
people could smoke pot and have long hair and listen to rock 'n' roll 
and otherwise look the part of a hippie and still be working for The 
Man.  That was the "Me Generation" after all, when people seemed to  
decide to forget all that political nonsense and focus instead on 
personal pleasure.