Happy Birthday, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.!

[Michael Bailey]

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>  Page 364
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> . . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks
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> Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99. This
> means that the novel ends on Pynchon's 33rd birthday, a nice way to
> underscore the semi-autobiographical nature of Inherent Vice.
> Furthermore, this situates the ending of the novel just four days
> after the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970 - yet another way of
> telling us that the beach is being paved over and that the sixties
> have come to an end.
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> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_21#Page_364
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woohoo, nice connection to Kent State, which would've immediately
preceded the intercalary day...

(non-sports-fan mumble: didn't basketball once used to be a winter sport?
could've sworn...)

a-and Happy Birthday Mr Pynchon!
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