#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

[Michael Bailey]

 rich  wrote:
> my opinion is that Pynchon's strengths lay in the melancholic romantic
> longing for what history we've chosen for ourselves (interspersed w/
> alot of roadrunner zaniness)
> IV is all zany and the romantic longing is totally absent leaving much
> of the novel imho dull

wait, wait, romantic longing absent?  it's a hotbed of romance!
Mickey for his neckties
Shasta for Mickey
Tariq for Glen
Riggs for Sloane
Clancy for twosomes
Trillium for rough trade
Doc for Shasta (and, I guess, Clancy)
Bigfoot for barbed wire
Golden Fang for $$$
not to mention Puck and what's-his-name, I keep thinking of Siegfried and Roy



-- 
--- ...one of the "sounds of the sixties" evoked in IV
is that of the coffee percolator, which is simply a far, far groovier
sound than any drip coffeemaker has ever made