One Day Before Starting Inherent Vice
I ‘ve been to Los Angeles only once, yet I always wanted to live there. When i was a teen back in the eighties I took a look at the map of Los Angeles and chose a location: Torrance. This was going to be the place where I would live in the future.
Life plays strange games with us. When I met my – future – wife I eventually found out that her uncle is a permanent resident of (yes, you guessed it) Torrance, so part of our honeymoon was based on Torrance, my teen dream location.
In the fifteen days I spent there I realized that I was close to where Pynchon lived back in the seventies so I took quite some time around Manhattan beach and Redondo beach.
Inherent Vice apparently is taking place in Gordita Beach which is supposed to be Manhattan beach, so I think somehow that this will be a very personal book for me. Simply because it bridges the gap between the textual Pynchon and my actual presence to the area in which he lived and he chose to use as a theatre for Inherent Vice.
Under this detail, the comments that will be expressed in this blog will probably be a lot more personal than the ones that appeared in http://againsttheday.wordpress.com, so any readers of this blog feel free to argue with me at any stage of this reading.
A reading that will start tomorrow… Single up all lines so we can fly into grace 
