Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I'll agree that the book's worth reading for the glimpse it gives into the time and place the author lived in while writing GR, but saying that IV provides additional contexts for a reread of GR, COL49 and ATD seems a little overblown.  Substitute "pale echoes of" for "additional contexts in which to read" and I'm completely on board.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>

>
>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:
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>> 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..?
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