The IV rush: Blog teaser....

[Mark Kohut]

"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."

This fanboy loves the excerpt....the rhythm, another fine Pynchonian LIST!...and, there, there and THERE, some of his patented tropes already....electic power lines....that sky and more whiteness, whiteness....contrasted with "psychedelic" (think of magenta, green--as someone reminded---and ALL the colors in AtD.......)....his vision of life's possibilities with color, more color, against the whiteness     a---and .....horizons!.....

Horizonless----that C of L49 tract houses view, compressed....

Another novel that starts AGAINST THE SKY....he takes on, heaven and earth in every book. So f'in ambitious for  a reputedly shy guy......love it, love it....

He can't help himself, fortunately for us.....he writes/sees in patterns of tropes (on one of his overlays at least)....a poet, richer than Eliot arguably, as dense as Dante, maybe,.........in his lyrical prose......