VLVL2(4)(ww) Cloudpressed Lane

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 9 10:15:24 CST 2003


The "Vomitones Official Van" is an orgy room that has "300 watts of of
sonic apocalypse", "lurid fuchsia padding",  "nukehappy cyberdeath
graphics" and the "miniature iron skulls" welded together into a
steering wheel,  "tinted bubble windows" which cause some sort of
blooming in the faces of some of the dimmer teens inside. Perhaps the
windows are rose tinted. 

Bloom: glare that is caused by a shiny object reflecting too much light
into a television camera. To grow or flourish with youth and vigor.  To
appear or expand suddenly. A fat literary critic in love with Bill
O'Avon. A character in Joyce's Ulysses. 

It difficult for me to imagine Marty or any Star Trek characters flying
back to the future in the van. However, automobiles in this novel are a
bit chitty-chitty bang-banged and cartooned. The Vomitone van comes
screeching in to the Pizza place parking lot just as Deeply's van goes
screeching out. And of course Trent's Pick-up is not simply a common
camper convert that one sees on California roads. 

But where the hell is Prairie going? 

She was supposed to go camping with the Vomitones. She ends up going
camping with Daddy. 

So now, after his night of camping with his "virgin" teen bimbo Zoyd is
gonna just hand her off to I-24 like a side of beef? Pork? 

Why? 

All those friends and associates, a mother-in-law he's been depending on
all these years, and Zoyd is gonna hand his daughter over to I-24. To
live on the road? What, like a crew slut? 

I-24 is taking her to a Mafia Wedding. 

And all Zoyd can do is hand her a Business card?



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