COL49: Why the Negativity, TRP?

[rich]

love it
in that case who's that V?
V must be us then
welcome to Vheissu friends

rich

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> this is why I love this list.
>
> Alice is Stencil, more engaged in the past than the present. I am Benny, a
> Schlemiel's schlemiel, rootlessly yo-yo-ing up and down the California
> coast.
>
> If the California books are pure crap, then allow me a bit of Scatoscopy.
> Somehow the fictional California towns that Pynchon places these stories are
> all fully operational in my own life. Call it projection all you like,
> Pynchon is describing particular places, particular times and he's quite
> accurate. If you've ever been there, you would be in on the joke. I sure
> there's more than a touch of autobiography in Doc 'n' Zoyd's wake 'n' bake
> lifestyles. Similarly, an eye for the locales of various CIA/FBI projects
> scattered around California in ways large and small touched on the young
> author's life, occupations & preoccupations.
>
> Of course, when it comes to the scatological, hardly anything can even get
> close to Gravity's Rainbow.
>
>