Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:

> The list would suck if either of them left. They're both great.

thanks.  i don't want to leave, esp. not now, but i've been overtaken
by, well, something, at any rate ...

i'm about to go check in, will let y'all know when i'm back.  thank
again for all yr efforts, do please keep going on the book, one thing
i was hoping a quicker pace'd do would be to leave us  a bit fresher
than we usually are after a year or more long campaign, so as to allow
for rereading, reconsideration, reappraisal, whatever ...

one question i've been wondering about is, why a (relatively,) young
stoner protagonist, who just happens to be a detective, albeit prone
to, i don't know, reality lapses?  cf., e.g., why an ex-young
republican housewife, or ....

what is he, what are we not quite seeing (
as a result?) that may well be of utmost importance nonetheless?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0907&msg=137034

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114275

Or, again, what of IV;s relationship to the other books, e.g., GR ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=139428

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140252
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140254
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140258

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0911&msg=144973

thanks again ...