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TrixRabbi posted:Just because it's universal doesn't mean it isn't also directly about the sixties. And also, I may be going a bit off the book here, but all the specific references to Nixon and then-Governor Reagan. The sheer dedication to building an authentic atmosphere for this very specific year (1970). In order to understand our own time, and all the times in between, we have to look to the sixties (just as the sixties have to look to the fifties and so on and so on). Pynchon and Anderson are pointing to this era, and really this particular year, and saying: Look. This is what has been going on forever. This is one specific example of it happening. The "straights" in this story are the ones who elected Nixon, and they went on to elect Reagan. The government squashed the hippies, they squashed the Black Panthers. The hippies gave way to the yuppies and they all either went straight or OD'd. I think this is right. In the Q&A PTA talked about how most of Pynchon's books are about turning points, this being one of them (I think that point is accurate, BTW). The drugs play a role; the switch from the benign marijuana to malignant heroin plays an important role, and that is one of the reasons the revolution fails. I need to see it again but I loved it. It may have been the circumstances, though.
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Professor Shark posted:Lots of love for the final Bigfoot and Doc scene, but not enough of it for this line: "Bigfoot, man.... you kicked down my door......" I'll bet that door really held the room together.
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