The Dark Passages & the California Dickstory

[Jerome Park]

There are lots of ways we might stack these books.  While all the books are
saturated with media, photography, film, the movies, TV, Television, Made
for TV Film....VL, IV, and BE are TV saturated. BE is internet saturated
and this may be one reason to argue it is a California novel, but it's a
weak argument.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> My general perspective too.
>
> I would see Laura's division, picking up on Rich's observations as
>
> 1) the America Unfolding novels...
>       vs.
> 2) the World-System novels.
> basically.
> And since America is, say, not the Maldives, its majorness as a country
> means the America Unfolding novels bleed into the World System novels.
>
>
>
> 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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