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[Joseph Tracy]

Notice on this page that when Doc is realizing - that every one of  
these Boards was a zombie, undead and unclean.-  Denis materializes  
from someplace and answers Doc's thoughts " Dead and clean  is okay?"

extrasensory chops, everyone watching dark shadows, paranoia filling  
the space, from pot ?from real world? from a loss of inner life,loss  
of contact with real people?  Everyone starts to look like zombies  
and then the mind probe from Denis starts a movement toward action,   
bit of light, verbally assessing situation,  the munchies, Jade drops  
in and they all head out.  I wonder if Pynchon is giving us some of  
the reasons he refuses publicity, describing his own sense of what  
publicity  and fame does to those he has seen.

I sense that the dark shadows and parallel worlds are self  
reflective, the writer observing the effect of a fictional device he  
has employed and seeing something a bit more macabre than he intended.




On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> "Hey!  Guess what's in this grass?"
> on the one hand, free dope.  On the other hand,
> some clown sowing confusion.
> That's almost as annoying as people giving acid to dogs...
> although, have you looked into what's in your basic dog food?
> http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/
> "Guess what's in this dog food"
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> "...English zombies are for the most part quite well spoken,
> they use long words and they glide everywhere..."
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> who knows how unfounded this notion may be:
> I'm thinking Beatles meet Beach Boys...we know they did
> (and we know Pynchon met Brian Wilson)
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> --- "Can't say it often enough -
> change your hair, change your life."
> - Sortilege