CoL49 (1) I Want to Kiss Your Feet [PC 13]

[Robin Landseadel]

On May 8, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

>
> Robin:
>
>> . . . one can situate the book at the first blush of Beatlemania in
>> America. Probably March 29—May 17, 1964.
>
> Agree about the year, but don't forget that first line: "One summer  
> afternoon..."
> Also, when Oedipa walks through Berkeley campus, we once again learn  
> that "It was summer,
> a weekday, and midafternoon; no time for any campus Oedipa knew of  
> to be jumping, yet this
> one was." Old Mr Thoth refers to the clouding of the dandelion wine  
> "a few months ago", when
> it was "spring." And Grace Bortz sez that her husband is pouring a  
> patio, "a highly organized
> joke that's been going on since about April." So I'd say June-July  
> 1964.

Thank you, my bad.