Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[grladams at teleport.com]

OK, maybe I sort of brought on, within myself, a magnetic need to attach a
core topic to the book, and when the Wolfman plot came about, my mind
instantly wanted that plot, about how he's a sorta defective/reformed
capitalist, moving money the wrong way in the system, gave me a vibe - so
to speak, of just so many other Pynchon novels, that we'd get to indulge in
many side stories that would explicate this phenomenon. Mybe some moon
launch era math or science, maybe more detailed fantasy geography of
California that upheld the likelihood that only there, could such a
phenomenon occur. I wished for more on the layout and geometric form of the
plot he was developing. I just wanted more guts to that plot of giving the
money back to the poor or whatever it was that Wolfman was trying to do. I
felt that the search for the murder of that initial guy (sigh can't
remember name) was ultimately linked to trying to obscure the bad guys from
stopping Wolfman from doing that. See, I guess I really don't understand
the book, and so my first sentence may just reveal that I had held too high
of expectation. I look forward to more Pynchon novels where we get more
magic again, where the laws of physics seem from a particular description,
to be able to be broken, but just so close as to be out of reach. He writes
so well these sorts of things and I guess it just left me hanging and I got
sick and tired of the pot references. 

Original Message:
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From: Robert Mahnke rpmahnke at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:28:01 -0500
To: grladams at teleport.com, markekohut at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?


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:
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> 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
>
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> 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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