CoL49 (6) Intermission

[Robin Landseadel]

Don't stop til you get enough, but this is the end, my only friend the  
end—of our elaborate plans, the end of everything that stands, the end  
no safety or surprise, the end. She said you hurt her so, she almost  
lost her mind. Los Paranoias invites you to to just enjoy us. Come on  
you can do with baby, come on and join Los Paranoias. She's well  
acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window  
pane. King Kong, little elves on the rooftoops they dance, whatever  
you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. I know it looks like I'm  
moving, but I'm standing still. Every nerve in my body is so vacant  
and numb, I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away  
from. Feel like I'm drifting—drifting from scene the scene, I'm  
wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean? Insanity is  
smashing up against my soul, you can say I was on anything but a roll.  
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'.

Don't stop on my account. Don't stop 'til you get enough.

On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> No, not done (unless I'm supposed to be, I haven't been keeping track
> (so someone let me know ...), but I did get off to a late start, with
> any/all subsequent activity sporadic/erratic at best, but I DID want
> to get at least some talking points up, so ...

Well, way back in the before before I was thinking that there would be  
considerable overlap of The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland with the  
upcoming Inherent Vice. I was hoping that in addition to reviving our  
memories of these marvelous works we might also establish time and  
place in these novels as there seems to be autobiographical elements  
in those two works and probably will be even more autobiography in  
Inherent Vice. So this has been a bit of a personal search for missing  
terms in the equation.

> ... so I really would like to go back and get what I can up about
> those names, cover some details I
> skipped/neglected/missed/forgot/didn't notice the first time around,
> carry/follow up on ongoing/emergig discussion, u.s.w., et soforthiam
> ...

. . . and I guess that there will be considerable overlap, so we might  
as well continue on our maximalist tracks 'cause we didn't invite  
James Wood to the part anyway.

> Meanwhile, thanks for bearing with me yet again, and, in the meantime,
> of course, feel free to mingle ...

I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I  
hope we pass the audition.