IV opening talk

[Mark Kohut]

And, for full disclosure, I am a guy who cannot tell the difference between cars, although I can drive. 

Once I rented a car for a business meeting. The small talk before things started was between a guy who knew cars evidently like Pynchon does and me. "What car did you get?", he asked conversationally......

"I dunno", i answered, truthfully. "It's white and new." He has been repeating that story for years. And not just to me, I'm sure. 

--- On Wed, 10/21/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: IV opening talk
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:00 AM
> 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
> >
> >Clement Levy writes:
> >We read in this chapter many cars' makers and models'
> names (as before), but Doc soon cannot use his Dart. 
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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?
> 
> >
> >
> >      
> 
>