The Dark Passages & the California Dickstory

[Jerome Park]

Yeah, a goodly stacking--casting a www into the un map able lines of
mnemonics depths. Mostly, though, it's about fishing and other work we do.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've taken to considering M&D, IV + BE as TRP's internet trilogy.
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:45 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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