JFK

[Robin Landseadel]

The best counter to what I'm doing is to come up with alternate  
readings. I'm going to pursue threads that are meaningful to me. I  
really had no notion of all the various paranoid enterprises swirling  
around Howard Hughes until after reading Inherent Vice, I simply am  
following leads in the text and seeing where they go.

By way of example—I always assumed that Charles Hollander was over- 
reading and projecting when he came up with his "Magic Eye" reading of  
"The Crying of Lot 49." After our recent group reading it became clear  
to me that the co-ordinates in the book—time and place, locations and  
occupations—pointed to MKULTRA and elements of the military-industrial  
complex. I still don't think that CoL49 is "about" the JFK  
assassination but it very much has to do with the mood of TRP's little  
corners of the world in the wake of that cultural cataclysm. Inherent  
Vice is very much in that vein and if it is a darker book than the  
already dark CoL49 it is because it is noting the time that followed  
multiple cultural cataclysms.