V Group Read - tentative schedule

[alice wellintown]

I think Cuckoo was published before V. so maybe P read it before or
while writing V.. But no matter; it's not anxiety or influence here.
what matters is that these two works and several others published
between 1960 and 1965, and several non fiction texts, films, works of
art,  all focus on a mechanical bride, one that can be traced through
McLuhan and back to Fitzgerald's Myrtle (Gatsby) and Adams's Dynamo &
Virgin.

Although Chief Broom and the Combine have more in common with
Invisible Man, Native Son & Co., and thus, ironically,  with Slothrop,
RPM, a gypsy roofer on the road Picaro is a close cousin of Benny
Profane--though Benny doesn't quite RPM, he yo -yoes.


> do you think Kesey had read V.?  do you suppose the wild goose v passage you
> cited was a nod?  I think I remember reading a nod to Tolstoy into a passage in
> _Sometimes a Great Notion_ and great explication of Coltrane too, not to mention
> echoes of Kerouac all amid a woolly thing of his own also...
>
> He was actually quite an accomplished author, imho, so me, I'd say,
> sure, probably...
>
> pretty much opposite of personality type, in terms of seeking the public eye,
> as versus our list-inspiration...
>