Question re IV: from epic to everyday

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/31/2011 8:24 AM, János Széky wrote:
> Alice and Everybody,
> sorry, I just forgot it. Page 130.
> And thanx.

Might add to Alice's reply that epic sex means sex with accoutrements 
like trampolines, skate boards, and automatic weaponry.

P
>
> 2011/8/31 alice wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com>:
>> Janos,
>> It always helps us when you provide a page number so that we can read
>> the excerpt in context. Here, Pynchon slides into the local dialect so
>> the words "everyday" and "epic" describe a range of sexual desire. The
>> narrator or character, in what appears to be a typical Pynchonian
>> paranoid reverie, wonders if the dark forces or dark crews,  who work
>> for greed and fear, have been there all this time, even at every
>> counter-revolutionary event, working to reclaim the power of the
>> people for the forces of greed and fear.  Although a common enough
>> theme in Pynchon's California trilogy, here the Oedipa-Complex
>> paranoia that Pynchon works wonders with in CL49 as he drives the
>> quest narrative with a protagonist who, to use Foucault's term, is "We
>> Other Victorians," here we get the Van Meter and Zoyd and Oedipa's
>> husband Mucho and Larry version that is subjected to the satire of
>> drug induced hippie stupidity and paranoid grand delusions of
>> surrender.
>>
>>
>> 2011/8/31 János Széky<miksaapja at gmail.com>:
>>> What I understand here is the emotion but not the exact meaning.
>>> Please help me with the syntax:
>>>
>>> "Was it possible, that at every gathering—concert, peace rally,
>>> love-in, be-in, and freak-in, here, up north, back East,
>>> wherever—those dark crews had been busy all along, reclaiming the
>>> music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to
>>> everyday, all they could sweep up, for the ancient forces of greed and
>>> fear? "
>>>
>>> I mean, are both "from epic to everyday" and "for the ancient forces
>>> of greed and fear" related directly to "reclaiming", or is "from epic
>>> to everyday" an apposition to "sexual desire"?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> János
>>>