VLVL2 (9.5): "Tales of Dispossesion"

[Dave Monroe]

"A whole town full of Thanatoids!  It would provide an
inexhaustible supply of clients, though most of them,
owing to teh cupidity of heirs and assigns, copuldn't
pay much. [...] Takeshi and DL became slowly entangled
in other, often impossibly complicated, tales of
dispossesion and betrayal." (VL, Ch. 9, p. 172)

>From Pierre-Yves Petillon, "A Re-Cognition of Her
Errand into the Wilderness," New Essays on The Crying
of Lot 49, Ed. Patrick O'Donnell (New York: Cambridge,
1991), pp. 127-70 ...

"... the whole concept of the Tristero seems to derive
linguistically from a reference in Eliot's The Waste
Land to 'le Prince d'Aquitaine a tour nobile' (line
430 [sic--try line 429]).  This line itself bears a
cryptic reference to Gerard de Nerval's poem 'El
Deschidado,' in which most of the major themes of the
Tristero are sounded (the exile into a shadowy,
marginal world; the former prince whose 'tower' has
been 'abolished'; the 'black sun of melancholia'). 
Nerval's poem, in turn, takes its titles from the
motto on the shield of the mysterious Disinherited
Knight who turns up at the beginning of Walter Scott's
Ivanhoe, and who will eventually represent both the
Saxons and the Jews evicted from their estates by
Norman chivalry...."

T.S. Eliot, The Waste-Land ...

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/table/explore5.html

Gerard de Nerval, "El Deschidado" ...

http://eleves.mines.u-nancy.fr/~grangerf/huma/el%20deschidado.htm

http://cld.multimania.com/poesies_archives_nerval.htm

Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe ...

http://www.angelfire.com/ut/daikon/ivanhoetext.html

>From Charles Hollander, "Pynchon's Inferno," Cornell
Alumni News (Nov. 1978): 24-30 ...

   "In his apparent schema, paranoia should be
preceded by feelings of disinheritance. Actually
Pynchon does feel somewhat disinherited. Pynchon’s
family is a clan of bluebloods who were misguided
enough to align themselves with the wrong side during
not one, but two American Revolutions, one in the
eighteenth century and one in the twentieth century,
and who have suffered social and economic reversals as
a consequence."

http://www.itap.de/homes/otto/pynchon/inferno.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65233&sort=date

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