The Dark Passages & the California Dickstory

[Jerome Park]

https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.7766/orbit.v1.1.35/

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not sure how Bleeding Edge is a California book, though it has much in
> common with the other California Dickstories--Lot49, IV. I exclude VL
> because VL is closer to "historiographic metafiction", to V., GR, M&D, and
> AtD, though young Prairie, the "protagonist" and "Dick" in the novel is,
> like Oedipa, Maxine, and Larry (aka Doc),  more an idea about subversive
>  film making and television and rich media, and how the past has been
> consumed, how the Old Left to New Left Turn, engineered by media, got us
> from Nixon to Reagan, then a hard boiled or soft boiled detective, she
> still fits the California Dickstory....In any event, conflating Bleeding
> Edge, where a very different set of political players than are found in the
> California books are given life, not to mention a reprieve from 11
> September, other than the paranoia, is so not a California book, not for
> anyone who has lived in both states, as Pynchon has, and I have for the
> good part of a century.
>
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