Happy Birthday, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.!

[Mark Kohut]

I'm really liking this possible resonance. I have just speed-read Michael Lang's--he
made Woodstock happen--The Road to Woodstock. He says he sees the end of the
sixties as the Kent State killings, not Altamont (or anything else). [Altamont, with criminally careless lack of
planning---ONLY Hell's Angel's as security??---was NOT what overthinkers claimed, he sez].

And, ....I remember that day. It might be portrayed as two days long by a subtle, always surprising, genius. To me, unarmed college students just like me shot to death in the next state over scared and paralyzed me that long day. Longer?...Remember that doc is mentally 'lost' vs that clock. Might one call it psychic shock, metaphorically? 
 



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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sat, May 8, 2010 8:47:05 AM
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.!



>
> Page 364
>
>. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks
>
>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.
>
>http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_21#Page_364
>
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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