BE, pg 74

Keith Davis kbob42 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 10:23:48 CDT 2015


There's a curve?


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> On 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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