IVIV (8): Nixonizing U.S. Currency

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:

> So Dave you are saying that the dates don't matter and that the Nixon
> currency due to the Nixon Shock in '71 is in IV in '70.

Not that they don't matter, but that there's already a glaring
anachronism in this chapter alone.  Question is, why?  Sure, Pynchon
has admitted to playing fast and loose and/or just plain sloppy in the
past (see the SL intro + that letter on the Herero), but, still ...
but, of course, the Nixon $s here aren't NECESSARILY a ref. to the
"Nixon Shock," just a serving suuggestion on my part, is all ...

> Well I wonder. A little indeterminacy here but surely not for the first
> time. Makes it better.  Perhaps the currency in IV is not about the Nixon
> Shock at all and that was my point.

Again, at least as likely a possibility ....

> ... it's the Look that matters.

My instinct is to concur ....