IVIV (11) 172

[Clément Lévy]

I am now rushing through these pages…

- "why do they call it the Love Generation?" This passage sounds like  
a disapproval of the way adults tended to behave with younger people  
during the 70's.

- "circa 1970" : helps define the chronological frame of the novel.

- "'adult' was no longer quite being defined as in times previous"  
The recent come-back in the head-lines of the Polanski affair can be  
seen as a good example of what the author writes here.

- ''these travellers invisible to others,"They knew they could fly,"  
"wingfeathers," "a eyeblink in eternity and they would ascend":  
angels? in Wenders' movie Der Himmel über Berlin, only children can  
see angels, but they see and recognize each others. Of course, we met  
angels in V. and Gravity's Rainbow, mostly, but also in Mason & Dixon  
and Against the Day.

Clément