Spring 1970

[Robin Landseadel]

On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> On Mar 11, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> It wouldn't take an ungodly amount of semiotic torsion to stretch  
>> the meaning
>> of LA (Hollywood and Hollywood endings and beautiful people and
>> the culmination of the Turner thesis and tolerance - nay,  
>> cultivation -
>> of alternate sexual customs) losing to Boston (the place where they  
>> ban things . . .
>
> 	Celebrate Banned Books Week
>
> 	Another Springfield First!
>
> 	The first book banned in the New England colonies was written
> 	by William Pynchon, founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
>
> 	William Pynchon was a merchant and trader, founder of the
> 	small colony of Springfield on the banks of the Connecticut
> 	River, and the author of the first book "banned in Boston." . . .

As long as I've got the mike, there's heresy in the mix. Consider the  
aggregate religious/spiritual proclivities in and around Manhattan/ 
Gordita Beach, circa spring 1970. Whatever you may think of Bigfoot/ 
Bigfoot and Shasta/Shasta, seems like everyone on the beach's  
copacetic with new and improved heresies in Inherent Vice is. We get a  
California-specific variation on the Atlantis myth.

I've been saying for some time that there's plenty of mutated family  
history going on in all of Pynchon's novels, none more mutant than his  
own in IV.