Just to remind--and ask

[Ian Livingston]

Sometimes I forget that Pynchon has been spying on me all along.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> A-a-a-a-and the central Mcguffin in "Head 'em Off At The Past!!!" [organ
> stab!] is Time Travel.
>
> Back to the drawing board . . .
>
>        "The clock up on the wall, which reminded Doc of elementary
>        school back in the San Joaquin, read some hour that it could
>        not possibly be. Doc waited for the hands to move, but they
>        didn't, from which he deduced that the clock was broken and
>        maybe had been for years. Which was groovy however
>        because long ago Sortilege had taught him the esoteric skill of
>        telling time from a broken clock. The first thing you had to do
>        was light a joint, which in the Hall of Justice might seem odd,
>        but surely not way back here-who knew, maybe even outside the
>        jurisdiction of local drug enforcement-though just to be on the
>        safe side he also lit a De Nobili cigar and filled the room with a
>        precautionary cloud of smoke from the classic Mafia favorite.
>        After inhaling potsmoke for a while, he glanced up at the clock,
>        and sure enough, it showed a different time now, though this
>        could also be from Doc having forgotten where the hands were
>        to begin with.
>        IV, 282, 283
>
> On May 5, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Are any of you living right now that 'extra day' between May 4 and May 5
>>> that is in Inherent Vice?
>>
>>
>> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281
>>
>>
>> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_314
>
>



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