JFK

[Mark Kohut]

All the stuff around TRP, as he points, were some kind of 'inspiration' for all of the very specific--AND simply non-specifically associative---interlockings of GR. Imho.



--- On Mon, 11/23/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: JFK
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 9:54 AM
> 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.