Not really P, but when paranoia was the Zeitgeist.

[Mark Kohut]

*The Bourne Supremacy *is on my TV and it leads me to ask
if we have mentioned Robert Ludlum in the shallowest of
comparisons to Pynchon? He IS shallow but twisty, unreadable, although
watchable as movies--by me anyway. I'll bet Laura and others on this list
are not so easy (OK. I have an old man crush on Julia Stiles and I want to
identify
with Matt Damon, is that so wrong?) ...  but culturally, interestingly, he
hit big with his commercial novels right around the same time
as did Gravity's Rainbow. (first one in 71)

And, of course, the main character is being set up, hounded by
his secret government special missions branch. Military, spy, corporate
and many he interacts with----are out to get him. Not quite Slothrop, but
close enough, no?

Sometime around 1969, the American culture changed. The
military-CIA--industrial complex
began to be *felt? *or else it was Nixon.
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