Just to remind--and ask

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Livingston" <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Just to remind--and ask


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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