The revolutionaries of May

[Dave Monroe]

2009/7/27 Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>:
> <<  I've long taken something along these lines as given.  GR ends up in
> 70s LA.  The War seems as much Vietnam as WWII (as ... as ...).  CF.
> the truism about SF, that it's always "really" "about" its own
> sociohistorical context,  As is most everything ... >>
>
> Absolutely. Just to clarify: I wasn't suggesting that Janos was the first person to see GR as being 'about' 70s LA (or America). I was just saying that I found Janos's suggestions about how IV casts new light on that long-established subject particularly intriguing.

Sorry, didn't mean to come off as marginalizing Janos' obs. ...

> << been wondering if one might
> eventually divide the novels thus: Lot49/VL/IV, GR/M&D/AtD, with V.
> split between them/at (of course) their point of divergence >>
>
> That sure is one way to froup them. But there seems to be a consensus building about the 'California Trilogy' of COL49/VL/IV, and of course there's quite a lot of truth in that, but it just seems to me that this ignores the LA connections with GR, and I have always found that stuff pretty intriguing: it's like, the hints are sort of obvious, until you try to pin them down and connect them up, at which point they vanish like smoke....

Not so much a "California" trilogy as a "Pynchon wuz there" one ...