Re Coordinated Occupy Bigfoot Crackdowns

Robert Mahnke rpmahnke at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 19:16:08 CST 2011


Much of what you say here is true of Vineland as well, no? 

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On Nov 20, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A longtime plister, not posting for awhile lately, insightfully noted that
> one difference between Inherent Vice and much earlier Pynchon
> was that TRP was prophetic earlier but IV looked back (by setting and placing in time of
> thematic meanings).........
>  
> i keep thinkign of that, thanks Tore Rye, but as is the first thing many critics, readers say
> about an "historical fiction", it is written by a person seeing the past thru the present.........
>  
> The militarization of our police forces, revealed as if in bas relief, often in the bas(of)night....
> is so clearly emphasized in Inherent Vice as to be a shout (as from a sound cannon, used on Occupyers).....
>  
> Re: Occupyers presence as Occupiers. Melville has a wonderful image of a drummond light---
> circular intense flashlight-like light....which he offers as something we can be like if we can be
> nothing else.............
>  
> Occupyers are, at least. I hold my little keychain light up to Laura--who was more---and all ot them.
>  
> The rest is pettiness. Imho. 



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