IVIV BIG DISCUSSION [spoiler] Compare & Contrast section, P. 32

[Michael Bailey]

> believing that they were not like everyone else and could, despite all
> the death that was raining down on other people's heads as they wasted
> their youth distancing themselves from any practical or pragmatic
> effort to help.

like the youth in Clockwork Orange being separated by rapid (planned
obsolescent?) changes of argot, style, so forth,
from people even a couple years older...

various things made the passing of the idealistic labor torch
problematic, Pynchon roots around in those in Vineland to great
effect,
Let us note that organized labor was out there at WTO 1999, and
perhaps other movement type, um, movements...thru the years...
not all of labor's labors were completely lost on the new generation

I'm still thinking about that Saint Phillip...preaching from the cross
that he's being crucified on...
and efficaciously to boot...
really must have been into it, as he refused to be released - kind of
like Surfer Guy as foreshadowed somewhere (hey, there's
a spoiler warning in the Subject line) and then at the end(ish) of the
book, riding that wave unhesitatingly, as that Lemuria opens up...
what undreamed land could have been opening up for Saint Phillip as he
preached from the cross (or Giordano Bruno as he burned...)
one wonders...or Joe Hill as he was being murdered?


not familiar with that other Phillip you mentioned, may have to look
into that.  Had never heard of Michael Harrington before
reading this list either...or Richard McKeon

I don't see _Inherent Vice_ as being a crap novel, not to say I'm the
best reader ever...
words actually cause physical changes in brain cells and nerve cells,
research shows us, someday maybe we will
give reviews by saying, something like:
I experienced Inherent Vice as a stitchwork of light-blue tingles in
an arc from my right cheekbone
over my right eye and curving toward my temple.  Sitting reading I was
occasionally moved to bounce my leg, most often the right.
A small mole shrank and disappeared while I was reading.