IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Fri Jul 17 16:20:20 CDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement


> On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Carvill John wrote:
>
>>> 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,
>
> . . . Arcada, Mendo, Redway, lower Oregon, Novato, San Mateo, Orinda, 
> Berkeley, Harbin Hot Springs . . .
>


Truth to that, assuming the speaker knows yet about those far away places.

Thinking on a higher plane did gradually move both north and south.

P




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