The IV rush: Blog teaser....

[Mark Kohut]

"Doc took the freeway out. The
> eastbound lanes teemed with VW buses in jittering paisleys,
> primer-coated street hemis, woodies of authentic Dearborn
> pine, TV-star-piloted Porsches, Cadillacs carrying dentists
> to extramarital trysts, windowless vans with lurid teen
> dramas in progress inside, pickups with mattresses full of
> country cousins from the San Joaquin, all wheeling along
> together down into these great horizonless fields of
> housing, under the power transmission lines, everybody’s
> radios lasing on the same couple of AM stations, under a sky
> like watered milk, and the white bombardment of a sun
> smogged into only a smear of probability, 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."
>

 Nothing confusing about this excerpt. Nothing, I say. 

I learned a new intransitive verb: LASE: INTRANSITIVE VERB: To function as a laser; emit coherent radiation by the action of a laser. 
Who else would use it so perfectly?

Don't like the list? meaninglessly excessive? (As was said of some of Henry James' fiction: he sometimes chews a lot more than he bites off...)...First, all of a piece, not the forced yoking of the unrelated. Second, it is an intro slice of the society and times, in shorthand, so to speak. Third, it is comically, typically Pynchonian........

"jittering paisleys"....nice word here, jittering....the image is MOVING, because the scene is.....

"sun smogged into only a smear of probability".......only TRP and some
who have been influenced by him, couldda written this line..........and it is a metaphoric image that works---and resonates with TRPs oeuvre........

And, I've already partially glossed TRPs mind in this sentence as tropes and theme bits.....
 
a---And there's "wheeling" again, which is sometimes just wheels even in TRP but there are: the great casino wheel in AtD, and the ferris wheels and the mandala motif and, of course, all resonating with the wheel of fate throughout..............

Carry on.