IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement

[Carvill John]

> From: Paul Mackin  

> 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?


Yep, but then again 'up North' in Pynchon means something else eh?
In the context of that sentence, I took the final 'bummer' clause to mean that perhaps the 'real' psychedelic Sixties action had been going up up North, i.e. ONLY up there. Could be wrong...


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