More on May 1968 and therefore Inherent Vice

[Mark Kohut]

As must be common awareness, I am a little touched when it comes to Pynchon sometimes.
Seeing thematic stuff everywhere I look and read....It's the plist's fault, of course, finding all the
associations and depth we can.   

So it is.

And browsing in another book, this one on intellectuals and politics in Post-War France---don't
ask why, just accept or delete now (if you are still reading.)----

I learn/read this: "May '68 was something of the order of a pure event, free of all normal and normative causality".
This said by Deleuze and Guattari later.................(I know this is just one perspective and worth discussing probably a lot, but I'm just gonna riff
on it as is)

Think about this in the context of, theoretically-determined historical causation...ala Marxism, ala many other
systems...............

Think about it in the context of TRP's lifelong theme of anti-pavlovianism, even raised to the philosophy of history level? (Told you 
I was touched).


Now....add this for another echoic theme:    The events of May 68 in France led almost all the famous intellectuals' to commenting and 
quarrelling, perhaps led by J.P. Sartre who defended--even saying they were necessary---the few acts of violence committed by the early protestors............which led
many even sympathetic to the students then the citizenry to protest against violence while trying to praise the strike. And, of course,
led many who were not sympathetic to shout that.......

Which led me to remember, as we associatively read Inherent Vice as a semi-embodiment of the values of 68 vs. the end of
those values, how we explored and were divided over Doc's act in (thinking he) killed what's-his-name.   

More TRP hitting the social/historical essence within his seven types of ambiguity?