Good Morning from Manhattan Beach, 1970. Chap. 16, the IV of IV

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I remember, as a kid, really looking forward to The Time Tunnel show, after seeing summer preview TV commercials for it.  Alas, it was utter schlock, even for the low-level sensibilities of a grade-schooler.  Basically, it involved two "scientists" who were caught in time travel mode (similar to the much better Quantum Leap)and basically travelled around the space-time continuum getting into fist or sword fights with everyone they met.  In short, it sucked.  Running into the Darren character would definitely signal a bad trip, involving both a time warp and impending violence.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Nov 29, 2009 2:07 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Good Morning from Manhattan Beach, 1970. Chap. 16, the IV of IV
>
>Right you are. The "search" function shows reference to "Time Tunnel",  
>the chapter by chapter doesn't. Somebody ought to fix it, you know . . .
>On Nov 29, 2009, at 10:55 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>>> First. See the timeline on the wiki some careful reader has  
>>> reconstructed.
>>> It shows that in this chapter and the next, THERE IS AN EXTRA DAY!  
>>> WTF?
>>> Did TRP just slip here, as Hemingway has been found to do in one of  
>>> his,
>>> Sun Also Rises, I think? Or, is it purposeful and therefore  
>>> meaningful?
>>> We do know how TRP has focussed on 'lost time' in M & D and time in  
>>> all the work, esp. AtD, with time travel and more.
>>>
>>>  We do know some rooms in his works are bigger on the inside than  
>>> can be seen from the outside. Is this true of time herein?
>>>
>>> Now Everyone--------
>>
>> I don't know if I'm not using that Wiki right or what . . .but it
>> doesn't include a notation for Moondoggie or  Darren in The Time
>> Tunnel (p.261). Maybe it's elsewhere, but the page-by-page annotation
>> omits these very important allusions. As I posted previously, when
>> Shasta shows up in the same outfit, Country Joe and the Fish T-shirt
>> (Ch. 15), Larry has been talking about smoking some Thai weed. That he
>> hasn't yet smoked it, but seems under its influence is also
>> significant.
>