IV opening talk

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I'm a car illiterate - never even learned how to drive - so TRP's specific car references are lost on me.  But it would be impossible to write about California without writing about cars, just as it would be hard to write about NYC without referencing the subway (as he does in V - his "NYC" novel).

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Oct 21, 2009 8:52 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: IV opening talk
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>Clement Levy writes:
>We read in this chapter many cars' makers and models' names (as before), but Doc soon cannot use his Dart. 
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>Pynchon knows cars, we know. Early, say V., with the famous Rachel O. scene
>and the pervasive theme of animate vs inanimate, we can infer P might think
>America's love affair with cars .....was part of the problem.
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>Do we think the same in IV? Is P's pervasive verbal presentation of cars
>the same attitude as from the early part of his career? 
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