IVIV20: Winding down for the day, 360-361

[Michael Bailey]

funny byplay (imho, ymmv, lol) on page 360 -

Sauncho singing "We Should Be Together" from Little Miss Broadway

in terms of 1970 popular music, Grace Slick had
a song where she intoned that phrase.
from the Volunteers album, "We can be together"...

after the Thunderclap Newman song out on the ocean
being co-opted by the DAs...

and after exposure to
the rather dolorous politics of the "Volunteers" album
("we are obscene, lawless, dangerous, dirty, violent" -
causing me - mind you, I still liked the music - but causing
me even back in 1970 to compare the excesses of the Yippies
and Weather-douches to what O'Brien had made Winston Smith
promise to do...)

anyway, for one of Doc's cronies to invoke Shirley Temple
and a whole different era of popular culture, not to mention
Mr Pynchon's preoccupation with the towheaded youngster,
is, well, for those willing to see glints of GR-genesis-stories in IV,
somewhat suggestive.  Like, "there is no sense to be made of
this current scene, let me instead lavishly recreate the Zeitgeist
of the childhood I never much wanted to escape..."

at that point, 1970, WWII wasn't all that far in the past,
closer in fact than 1970 is now

and the 60s, like the 30s, leading up to ... oh wait, I made a lifetime
resolution never to pontificate about decades anymore, having used
up my quota a long time ago   (-;