The Big Sweep (was: GRGR(12)Mystery of Imipolex G )

[David Morris]

Good tracking, Scott.  The mystery is meant to be observed.  It's very 
consciously pointed out (Small Spoiler):
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(286.30) ...A smell, a forbidden room, at the bottom edge of his memory.  He 
can't see it, can't make it out.  Doesn't want to.  It is allied with the 
Worst Thing.
       He knows what the smell has to be:  though according to these papers 
it would have been too early for it, though he has never come across any of 
the stuff among the daytime coordinates of his life, still, down here, back 
here in the warm dark, among early shapes where the clocks and calendars 
don't mean too much, he knows what's haunting him now will prove to be the 
smell of Impolex G.
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If Slothrop is correct, and I believe him, the questions multiply:
1. Why would JAMF expose Slothrop to Impolex G?  Is it part of the 
conditioning?
2. Why would Impolex G's earlier origin have been covered up?
3. What was the intended use of Impolex G?  Is it for what Blicero uses it?

>From: "Scott Badger
>
>Terrance:
>
> >"Imipolex G has proved to be nothing more-or less-sinister
> >than a new plastic, an aromatic heterocyclic polymer,
> >developed in 1939, years before its time, by one L. Jamf for IG Farben."
> >Gr.249
>
>[alot that shouldn't be snipped]
>
> >So 1920, when Slothrop is conditioned is too early for
> >Imipolex G to exist, only the 00000 Schwarzgerat V-2 carries
> >the Imipolex device, so why does Slothrop react to other
> >V-2s?, Jamf may never have existed?, Imipolex is both black
> >and white? and we are reminded by Pointsman's italics,
> >of "a silent extinction beyond the zero," another mystery.
> >You want cause and effect. Imipolex G, is a mystery.  "Surprised?"
>
>Yes, a mystery, and one Pynchon/the cartels have gone to some length to
>perpetuate. 'Imipolex G...[was]...developed in 1939, years before its time,
>by one L. Jamf for IG Farben.'  Years before its time, hmmmm....On the next
>page (250.21):
>
>"One hypothetical chain that Jamf came up with, just before the war, was
>later modified into Impolex G."
>
>So this must be WWI that Pynchon means here, dating, I think, the
>*possibility* of Imipolex G prior to 1914.  Why, then, would *1939* be
>"years before its time"?  Through an elaborate series of convolutions
>(mimicking the Italo-Tamara deal - which ends in a deafening explosion, but
>no, surprise!(?), erection), *oral* contact between Jamf's firm and IG
>Farben are traced back to 1926.  Two years later ICI is created and
>purchases a majority of the stock of Jamf's firm. Then we're told that "For
>some curious reason, Slothrop will discover, no agreements between ICI and
>the IG seem to be dated any later than '39" - the year Imipolex G was
>supposed to be developed.  Isn't that suggesting that stuff is being
>post-dated?  Including, possibly, the date that the IG gets involved with,
>and, officially, develops, Imipolex G?  Could it be that Imipolex G was
>developed well before '39, but because the earliest association between ICI
>and IG Farben (including ICI's marketing arrangement for Imipolex G) has
>been post-dated to '39, that the development of Imipolex G was also
>post-dated to substantiate that date?
>
>Or is it the other way 'round?  That it's the earlier existence of Imipolex
>G that is really being hidden, and post-dating those agreements is a way of
>sweeping the tracks?  Where's that Doghouse Riley when you need him?
>
>Scott
>

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