Re: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’ a Must-Read

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-7964-thomas-pynchonrss-lsinherent-vicers-a-must-read.html
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> The Bruce Springsteen of Reggae
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> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_blowtorch.html

	. . . .The year: unclear until page 113, when we find Doc
	watching a Milwaukee Bucks game on TV, and Bucks star Lew
	Alcindor has changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so it
	must be 1971.

'cept that it's 1970—see the final playoff game [ . . the Lakers would  
lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks: Friday, May 8, 1970.. ]  
Somebody—Pynchon?—either has their dates scrambled, or this is all  
happening in a parallel universe, one not all that different from the  
one I've been in for the last 54 years. Those that can remember the  
early seventies . . .

By the way: good, interesting review.