IVIV (8): Intro

[Robin Landseadel]

Sounds fine to me, and I've got at least one more posting for IVIV (7).
Going through Doc' trips [over and over and over and . . .] I reach an  
impasse in large part because the subject matter of the trips  
resembles in so many ways excursions of the mind I've experienced  
myself.

Thanks Dave for picking up the thread. I agree that Gravity's Rainbow  
is all mixed up and into Inherent Vice.

On Sep 28, 2009, at 5:35 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Okay, despite the fact that this is technically only the sixth hosting
> stint of this, the inaugural Pynchon-L Inherent Vice "group read"
> (vs., say, grope?), IVIV (whatever it is we might eventualy
> determine--or not--that that stands for), I've decided--as it won't so
> far as I can tell, contradict anything we've done so far vis a vis
> IV--to used IVIV (8) in the headers instead, as in, IV group reading
> of IV, Ch. 8.  Again, precedent would have this be IVIV (6) instead,
> but ...
>
> .. but earlier uses this tim around of the chapter number in the
> ubject heading suggested that, hey, that might not be a bad idea after
> all, and, as we (a) have clearly marked chapters numbers for ionce to
> work with in the first place, and (2) as each segment this read 'round
> tends to be a full chapter (if not a couple/three of 'em) anyway ...
>
> Well, something for y'all to complain back @ me about, if nothing  
> else, so ...
>
> ... so here 'tis, IVIV (8), in which I attempt to, if not demonstrate,
> suggest strongly that not only is there more than meets the reading
> eye in the ne(est) novel, but that it might well be read as, if not
> necesarily a key, or even a map, perhaps a ... a lexicon, perhaps, for
> the earlier books, not in the least of those Gravity's Rainbow.  Let
> me know how that works for y'all ...