First Page of Bleeding Edge?

[Markekohut]

Bobby Dylan performed 'close enough for folk music ', as the phrase goes, near me over the weekend and I wanted to go ' but the unswerving punctuality of chance'--Gaddis --intervened.

Anyway, the local reviewer praised Dylan's warmth and intimacy' which I think is a good phrase to describe my feelings about the first page of BLEEDING EDGE.

As wonderfully warm and happiness-embracing as, maybe, the opening of Mason & Dixon yet
soon full of the hints of danger that exist in happy bourgeois lives ( like ours; like his?)---the possibility of careening cars; the danger of ' rolling aluminum' scooters---that reminded me of
places within Against the Day like that. 

We remember the 'socially utopian' happy merging of cars at the end of Inherent Vice--an anarchic working out in practice, in California in 1970; here we have the feared (paranoid?)
possibility of a car out of control.  

And in that essay on cars in Pynchon someone will write, we 
Think of V, 50 this year of BLEEDING EDGE. 

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On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Jamie Big Dada <jamie at bigdada.com> wrote:

> Reads very much like Pynchon to me. Brilliant opening and an excellent teaser!

>> http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/first-page-of-thomas-pynchon-novel-bleeding-edge 
>> Yours truly,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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