The Dark Passages & the California Dickstory

[Dave Monroe]

Tonight @ TCM

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/605/Dark-Passage/

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.
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l