IVIV [Spoiler] Pynchon & McLuhan

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Doug Millison wrote:

> Robin observes "the dreamscape of Loony Tunes characters"
>
> To me, IV seems to work very much like a cartoon, in its visuals and  
> dialogue, and the way the story moves,  where Pynchon's descriptions  
> stand in for a cartoon's visuals while action and dialogue work like  
> a comic book  or, because of the length of the book, a graphic novel.

	It took a lot of squirming and muscle strain and semi-headstands
	to get even one of the shims to fall out of his pocket, but finally
	Doc worked himself out of the cuffs, creaked up off the bed, and
	had a look around. There wasn't much to see. The door was
	designed not to open from the inside, and there was nothing to
	force it with. He pulled the folding chair under the overhead light
	fixture, stood on it, and unscrewed the bulb. Everything went very
	dark. By the time he managed to get back down off the chair, he
	was in the middle of some kind of flashback, possibly from that
	elephant dope they'd given him. He saw old familiar images, like
	spirit guides sent to help him out, Dagwood and Mr. Dithers, Bugs
	and Yosemite Sam, Popeye and Bluto, rotating violently inside
	intensely saturated green and magenta clouds of dust, and he
	understood for a second and a half that he belonged to a single
	and ancient martial tradition in which resisting authority, subduing
	hired guns, defending your old lady's honor all amounted to the
	same thing.
	IV, 326