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the politics of that decade,Pynchon actually lets us see it.
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And if you look on page 83,
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this is just one of many, many examples.
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But I choose this one just because it's so obvious.
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Oedipa is going to Berkeley looking for Emory Bortz,
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and she comes on a summer weekday in the mid afternoon.
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No time for any campus Oedipa knew of to be jumping,
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yet this one was.
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She came down the slope from Wheeler Hall
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through Sather Gate into a plaza
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teeming with corduroy,
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denim, bare legs,blond hair,