Bleeding Edge takes place in 2001

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

William Slothrop and Kekule also come to mind from earlier centuries.
But yeah, there isn't that much century hopping in GR.

I just realized that the main bulk of V.'s framing narrative is also
set in the NYC of the former decade.

In V., the framing narrative acts as something of a sounding board
for the historical chapters. It remains to be seen if BE bears some
similarity to V. in this respect too.


Heikki

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> You're absolutely right! Now I'm wracking my brain to think of all the
> sequences is GR and ATD. LK
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Antonin Scriabin
>       Sent: Feb 25, 2013 7:16 PM
>       To: kelber at mindspring.com
>       Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>       Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge takes place in 2001
>
>       Well V. takes place in the late 19th and early 20th
>       centuries, if I am not mistaken. Mason & Dixon is a purely
>       18th century affair, barring Vulcans.
>
>       On Feb 25, 2013 7:08 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>             ATD spanned two centuries, late and early, and
>             it's hard to see how anyone could write about
>             2001, without referencing  back into the previous
>             century.  Aside from a brief hop back to the
>             demise of the dodos, doesn't GR (and all the
>             others) remain in a single century?  Previous
>             centuries are talked about in COL49, but we don't
>             actually go there.  Any other instances of
>             intra-book century hopping that I'm forgetting?
> Laura
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Antonin Scriabin
>       Sent: Feb 25, 2013 6:56 PM
>       To: kelber at mindspring.com
>       Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>       Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge takes place in 2001
>
>       Something tells me we won't be in this century
>       for long, or to the exclusion of other centuries.
>
>       On Feb 25, 2013 6:34 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com>
>       wrote:
>             Oops!  Working through earlier
>             emails, I see this was already
>             posted.  Exciting news, anyway.  With
>             all his zigzagging (yoyoing?) back
>             and forth in time, he's finally
>             arrived in our century.
>
>             Laura
>
>
>             -----Original Message-----
>             >From: kelber at mindspring.com
>             >Sent: Feb 25, 2013 6:22 PM
>             >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>             >Subject: Bleeding Edge takes place
>             in 2001
>             >
>             >Dave Monroe posted this on Facebook,
>             but hasn't posted it here yet.  Dave?
>              Dave?!  Are you here?  Great find!
>             >
> >http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/02/thomas-pynchon-new-book-bl
>             eeding-edge/62483/
>             >
>             >"The book is about the early 21st
>             century tech scene in New York City.
>             According to the log line from the
>             reports' preview, "it is 2001 in
>             Silicon Alley, New York City, in the
>             lull between the collapse of the
>             dot-com boom and the terrible events
>             of September 11."
>             >
>             >Laura
>
>
>