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

[John Bailey]

Funny, the Australian ran another review a while ago:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25848037-5003900,00.html

...but the novel isn't out here till mid-September. I think someone
made a gaffe running that earlier one so far ahead of local release.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rich,
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> 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.....
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> 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.
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> 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.....
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> --- On Wed, 9/2/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>> >
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