Re. IV Blog Teaser

[Carvill, John]

>another short paragraph here... have to say, it's pretty lousy

Aw, c'mon, Rich. Don't be that way :-)

Remember how awful that very first ATD exerpt sounded. A lot of us
thought it might well be a hoax.

Anyway I like the quoted paragraph. Reads very Vineland, which may not
for some be high praise but... it has that Pynchon rhythm, and some of
those trademark stylistic touches, 'TV-star-piloted Porsches'
f'instance.

That para in full:

Doc took the freeway out. The eastbound lanes teemed with VW buses in
jittering paisleys, primer-coated street hemis, woodies of authentic
Dearborn pine, TV-star-piloted Porsches, Cadillacs carrying dentists to
extramarital trysts, windowless vans with lurid teen dramas in progress
inside, pickups with mattresses full of country cousins from the San
Joaquin, all wheeling along together down into these great horizonless
fields of housing, under the power transmission lines, everybody's
radios lasing on the same couple of AM stations, under a sky like
watered milk, and the white bombardment of a sun smogged into only a
smear of probability, out in whose light you began to wonder if anything
you'd call psychedelic could ever happen, or if-bummer!-all this time it
had really been going on up north.

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