Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[Robin Landseadel]

Funny, I thought the core topic of the book was the attempt to  
remember what life was like at Manhattan—excuse me—Gordita Beach, way  
back in 1970. I detect the author having a lot of fun tussling with  
narratorial authority, always leading to thoughts like "It's a wonder  
I can remember anything at all." Lots of quotidian 1970 Los Angeles at  
the core of this remembrance of things past Rosecrans, with all sorts  
of cannabis flavored madeleines and other stoned diversions scattered  
along the way, leading to the usual cul-de-sacs and red herrings we  
all have learned to love so much over here at the P-list. This is a  
glimpse into those things that the author is most familiar with, shit  
he didn't have to look up, encapsulating the time and place the author  
lived in during the time he wrote the book that made him famous. In  
the process we are given additional contexts in which to read  
Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49, not to mention the Noir- 
laden Against the Day.

On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Robert Mahnke wrote:

> Hey Jill,
>
> Could you say more about what you mean by your first sentence?
>
> RPM

> On 1/4/10, grladams at teleport.com <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:


> OK, what I find so disappointing in IV is the lack of deep artful  
> writing
> about the core topic of the book, which I presume to be a  
> revolutionary act
> of reversing the flow of money. It's been a topic before, reversals or
> potentials of reversal-- from wistful missed opportunities of  
> Tesla's free
> energy, reversal of time in photography, etc, and IV coulda been a
> contender.. but it aint. What I did like about IV was the story of
> Sportello's and Bjornsen's professional paths beginning at conflicting
> outlooks on the world, and then how by the end there's Sportello  
> kind of
> being exposed, willingly? by Bjornsen, in a good wake up and smell the
> coffee kind of way, to dangers that whether we agree or not, whether  
> we
> like it or not, bring about a concretization that the 60's or the  
> old ways,
> are over.
>
> Jill
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:23:13 -0800 (PST)
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?