Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

... 10.48 h, the phone rings, it's my local book dealer telling me that
IV has arrived ... me: 'Damn, I'm not even dressed, but don't you go away
and, please, Watch that Book, will ya? I'll be there in a minute or two!'
Which was metaphorically speaking, since I have to make one-three-couple
of subway-stations before I can enter the shop, and so I brushed my teeth
and slipped into my leather suit: outta house I was ... While I was riding
the subway I realized that I had forgotten my shoes, surfing barefoot,
a-and from that moment on it all unfolded like in a clear dream ... The
sun came out when I was on the street again, and inside the shop, heartbeat
a little faster than usual, I saw --- they have a shelf with the arrived
books in alphabetical order in relation to the customers' names --- at once
what I was looking for: INHERENT VICE! (I mean, can you dig it? I have the
whole house alone for myself, no family duties: no reason to go out, and the
new Thomas Pynchon novel is there just for me to make the coming days & nights
fun!) ... I was so existed that I talked my book dealer --- who only read
Vineland but wasn't convinced --- into ordering "Die Enden der Parabel"
(the German edition of GR) for herself... The magic first opening of the
New Book let my eyes fall on the first line of page 7, where the italics
say "2001: A Space Odyssey" ... Pynchon must really love this movie ---
you remember that scene from Vineland, where Hector places a Ganja monolith
in Zoyd's house and Zoyd asks: What is this? '2001: A Space Odyssey?'
whereupon Hector, good punchline: no doubt, answers: 'Looks more like
'20 000 Years in Singsing'? IV's jacket design & image looks really MUCH
better when you hold the Book in hands. The people inside the pictured Surf
Shop, whom I never really recognized when I saw the announcements on the
screen, they come closer now, an intense Mise en Scène à la Edward Hopper ...
A-and though I've not read much yet, I can already say that I really like
the new prose StYLE a lot ... While M&D and Atd, imo, suffer from being
compiled from drafts outta different decades, Inherent Vice sounds as
if written as a whole in one happy period ... Enough, there's a Book
up there waiting for me!

Under the paving-stones, the beach!
Kai

PS: The Beatles title mentioned on p. 3. is NOT 'She loves you', but 'Can't Buy Me Love" -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waewnX3UKzw