VLVL(6) Ch 11 Note - The Thumb

[bruce sublett]

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Treyvaud <m.treyvaud at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL(6) Ch 11 Note - Greg Noll Lab


>On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Peter Petto wrote:
>
>> In the late Fifties, he opened Greg Noll Surfboards in California. Once,
>> one of Noll's shapers, Ricky James, cut his own thumb off with a power
saw
>> while working in the shop. At the emergency room of a nearby hospital,
Noll
>> talked one of the nurses into letting him have the thumb. He went back to
>> the shop and dropped it into a cup full of resin, which left it suspended
>> in a clear, hard cylinder.
>
>Just like Ear in M&D.. kinda. I suppose it doesn't matter that sound
>doesn't travel too well through resin, because thumbs don't hear. But its
>relentless opposability probably made that shop feel really alternative
>and counter-cultural.
>
>Matt
>
How 'bout Sissy Hankshaw's magical thumbs?  The surgically removed digit
continues with a life of its own (or am I getting the movie confused with
the real deal?)

BS