Bleeding Edge - audio

[alice wellintown]

So, on the females that P may have influenced, and on that fog faded
passage at the close of IV, that restless lass out on the road in a
stinray, I think of Joan Didion. Yeah, and I think that P could take some
lessons there. And her essays on the fog, the wind, on California....


http://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/joan-didions-1969-corvette-stingray/

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> You can't be serious. The closing passage of V. or of "Mondaugan's
> Story", of "The Secret Integration", of GR, of M&D, of AGTD, but not
> of those Brady Bunched books, made for the stoner nostalgiac who rides
> thru the fog that blends with the kool smoke when he rolls up the
> window and tunes into the radio vibes and joins in the sing along
> jingles or slouches slothfully, a Thanatoid veteran of the Tube wars
> who California dreams himself out on the shoulder of the Big Sur gone
> west young man then veers south toward the boarder where perhaps a
> blonde mermaid in a vet, a hippie bus, maybe even a cop on a
> motorbike, just deciding to be cool this time, whatever...fades
> away...and finds the America that was always there, just under the
> dust in the back seat of a used car on Lot 49.
>
> Give me a rambling,  swollen, 1,085 page disaster – what Michiko
> Kakutani calls “a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story,
> pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being
> illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex”...give me
> what is “Pynchonesque” – that thing that makes Wood mad, And keep the
> family portraits on your wall, and let the yarns spin and fray and
> fray and..., rage, rage, Thomas Pynchon, rage agains the night and
> rage against the day.
>
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