Back from the beach

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Keith wrote:

> On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:
>
> Perhaps the author—as Charles Hollander suggests—found
> something so extreme that it scared him, forced him to
> write as an exile in his own country, disguised within
> his character.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Wouldn't be the first time that happened:
>
> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01594b.htm

Yeah—that too, and Lord knows that the Crying of Lot 49 is full of it.

But it's also full of arrows & echos of  LSD & the "CIA". The material  
in Vineland is a bit more explicit about such things as government- 
funded black ops & CointelPro & Rex 84 & what acid does to your head &  
other distractions. & come to think of it, so does Gravity's Rainbow.  
If you follow those bread crumbs instead of those plucked from the  
Joycean use of religious allusions & metaphor you might be paying  
attention to other paranoid systems.

But I do get your point.

Like the Firesign Theater always sez:

	"Oh Blinding Light!

	"Oh Light That Blinds!'

	"I Cannot See!"

	"Look Out For Me!"

[organ gliss, exeunt]