BEER Group Read. Bruce Winterslow and Vyrva McElmo

[Mark Kohut]

And, when we read about New York time---Maxine interrupting Vyrva --" 'No prob', just to speed
things up...." we might think about P's focus on time sped up in modernity. That plane and
more, and more,  in Against the Day...

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From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. Bruce Winterslow and Vyrva McElmo

Bleeding Edge seems time-obsessed. We might even get [SPOILER] the
origins of AtD's trespassers, maybe not. I'm also thinking of M&D's
clock conversation, in which they're charged with keeping different
geo-times while occupying the same space. Seems pertinent. Seems like
something P has been trying to do (and also problematising) his whole
career. BE is trying to render a time-space (NY 2001) both ruptured
and continuous.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bruce Slow as Winter? and Vyrva, physically slow, 'a West Coast' thing, "not
> nearly time-obsessed enough".
>
> Then Pynchon jumps back in time---the looseness, the looseness; "he can do it anytime"-- to "before [Maxine and Vyrva] got to know each other"
> when Maxine saw her as a California type who must surely drink herbal tea.
>
> Mediated seeing. Seeing in stereotypes. Even our 'fraud detective' of some supposed acuity.
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