BEER Ch. 7, part 2: point of DeepArcher

[Monte Davis]

MK> I cannot get many less positive thoughts about DeepArcher out of my head...that word "abyss'...

 

For sure: few if any of Mr. Pynchon’s Wild Rides lack that “sense of something not necessarily pleasant just about to happen.” But I do think that DeepArcher’s “historylessness,” and the less emphasized fact that its users – not Justin and Lucas – are creating much of what Maxine sees, give it some of the positive valence of his transient anarchist utopias, too.

 

I repeat, transient. DeepArcher will be commercially colonized before the book’s year is out, and those still committed to its original intent forced to go mobile. The question that drives the plot, after all, is not some Stanford undergrads’

 

“What cool and revolutionary things can you do with transistors and HTML and fiber optics and virtual communities?”

 

But, quite explicitly, Maxine’s “Who’s putting money into / talking it out of these Internet companies, and why?”

 

I’d never expect that kind of question, in Pynchon, to yield upbeat answers.

 

 

 

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