IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
To: <lorentzen at hotmail.de>; <fqmorris at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:19 AM
Subject: IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement


> Furthermore, it (arguably) counts as one of those great Pynchon
> 'begginning of a journey' riffs (a la GR's opening evacuation, or Zoyd's
> trip up to the Log Jam) and, if you want to lean down really heavily on
> the Pynchon symbolism, it ends with that ominous 'up North'...

I  was puzzled by the final two clauses:

"....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."

"Up north" in L.A. lingo means the Bay Area and therefore Haight Ashbury, 
but is the wonder whether things you could call psychedelic are ONLY going 
on there, or are EVEN going on there?

P.