BEER Group Read. Bruce Winterslow and Vyrva McElmo

[Fiona Shnapple]

John,

Thanks for these insights and inter textual connections.
On Monday, October 14, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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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