IVIV book review: They really are out to get you by Michael Wood

[Mark Kohut]

Rich,

I'll just attempt a short answer to your second question. I think, when he says "this novel is saying to us" , he is only arguing that THIS 60S novel
says this, undsoweiter.....

Any novel which had a similar perspective on another time that was that book's time in THAT book, could have the same thing said of it. 

Re 1st remarks. When I visited Chicago shortly after finishing ATD,  where I used to live and work, after being away for a long time, Icelandic Spar, bi-location in time became a felt metaphor to me..... 

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV book review: They really are out to get you by Michael Wood
> To: "Doug Millison" <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 12:42 PM
> "What we lost when we lost the addled
> 60s, this novel is saying to us,
> is the illumination that may strike the truly confused,
> like Doc's
> cousin, who says he gets the strange feeling he used to
> live in the
> San Joaquin Valley. Doc points out to him that he did live
> there, but
> that's not what his cousin means. "No, like in another
> life, man." To
> feel you had another life in the place whereyou have lived
> your actual
> life is to cherish the survival of even an imaginary past,
> and it
> proves that the living too, and perhaps especially
> theliving, can
> haunt places with real-world addresses."
> _________
> I've been visiting some of my places of my childhood on
> long island
> the past few yrs--"survival of imaginary past"--is he
> saying all
> memory is imaginary?--revisiting the place of youth sure
> feels like
> being haunted (everything is familiar and very strange) for
> sure but
> not all of that memory is imaginary. i'm confused
> The other question is why is this sentiment exclusive to
> the 60s?
> 
> rich
> 
> On 9/2/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25980068-25132,00.html
> >
> > They really are out to get you
> > Michael Wood | September 02, 2009
> >
> > hat's the best one I've read yet.  Thanks,
> Heikki.
> >
>