Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory

[Mark Kohut]

"why "young stoner protagonist"?....
1st) part of this book's working-out of P's theme of what we've lost...
if you don't 'buy" my
2nd) coded Portrait of an Artist reading

--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
> To: "Keith" <keithsz at mac.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 12:02 PM
> 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 ...
>