BE, pg 74

[Monte Davis]

Glad to hear you're finding BE more rewarding. The coders' workroom itself
is a kind of sanctuary: I wrote here back then: .

Every bit of the intro and extro [to the Deep Archer demo], however, makes
its own contribution about imagined spaces:



Melanie’s Mall (68), which Otis and Fiona re-invent by turning Credit-Card
Barbie into a mashup of Modesty Blaise, Ginrei and Lara Croft. Their
scenarios tend to end “in the widespread destruction of the Mall… among
fiercely imagined smoke and wreckage,” which is a hell of a thing to do to
a trade center.



And somewhat-unreal places: Stanford, Silicon Valley as it began to sizzle,
and IPO-rich Santa Cruz County, where Vyrva and Justin almost settled
before the move to NYC (70-73)



And Justin’s home workroom (74), which is real and cluttered and prosaic
enough until the joints are rolled, “remotely linked window blinds close
their slats against the secular city, and the lights go down and the
screens light up.” There are many antonyms to “secular,” and “religious” is
only one of them.


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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:14 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure this was brought up during the BE read but the paragraph
> describing Justin's and Lucas' vision of a virtual sanctuary seems to me to
> encapsulate Pynchon's motivations and work as a whole:
>
> "Justin wanted to go back in time, to a California that had never existed,
> safe, sunny all the time, where in fact the sun never set unless somebody
> wanted to see a romantic sunset. Lucas was searching for someplace, you
> could say, a little darker, where it rains alot and great silences sweep
> like the wind, holding inside them forces of destruction. What came out was
> the synthesis of Deep Archer."
>
> I'm taking another shot at BE and finding it worthwhile overall. I may
> have other thoughts along the way. I definitely would place it within the
> trad. trilogy of CA books--there's alot of CA in BE.
>
> apologies again if I'm behind the curve
> rich
>
>
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