IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement

[rich]

oh well--I am encouraged that so many who have the book liked it--no
one has come out and said holy crap, what a dud

and yes, dang how many of u guys grabbed a copy

guarantee one review will have the review titled On the Beach

On 7/17/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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> ----- 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
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>> 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:
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> "....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."
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> "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.
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>