VLVL2 (Chapter 6) - part 2

Mon Sep 22 10:49:13 CDT 2003

70.16 chi spot I assume a clever elision of chi--the energy flow 
throughout one's
body, with its source somewhere in the lower abdomen--with G-spot. (Phil 
Hostak)

There are seven basic chakras which correspond to the color wheel:
RED:Base: Kundalini: Root Chakra:Located at the base of the spine.Contains
the primary 8 cells that have all of the knowledge of creationand remain
the only cells in your body that do not change in your lifetime. It grounds
us in the physical world.
ORANGE: Spleen: Located just beneath the navel, and related to our sexual
and reproductive capacity. Blockage manifests as emotional problems or
sexual guilt.
YELLOW: Solar Plexus: Seat of Emotions. Gives us a sense of personal power
in the world. Blockage manifests as anger or a sense of victimization.
GREEN:Heart Chakra: Blockage can manifest as immune system or heart
problems, or a lack of compassion.
BLUE:Throat: Tied to creativity and communication.Feels pressure when you
are not communicating your emotions properly
INDIGO:Third Eye: Pineal Gland: Is a physical eye with the capabilities of
looking upward.
PURPLE:Crown: Connects you with message from higher realms.Can be
experienced as a pressure on the top of the head.
http://www.crystalinks.com/chakras.html
from me: The "chi-spot" would be the chakra below the navel, considered to
be the "center" of the body. (David Morris)

70.9-71.12 This section describes the way Frenesis original treachery has 
set her up to be used as a seductress whenever her employers desire and how 
Flash responds by chasing other women. Their relationship is not 
threatened, he loves her, she needs him, but they continually pay for the 
rotten base on which the relationship is built.

71.14 Philodendron and parlour palm two tough house plants capable of 
withstanding the constant relocation hinted at several times in this section.

71.17 the past, a skip tracer
appeased for only a little while. Their 
moving may be at the dictates of their work but they are still on the run, 
haunted by their guilt, especially Frenesi the past 
 the zombie at her back

71.26 When the sixties were over
 Here Pynchon uses the language of the 
hippie underground movement and applies it to other side the underground 
existence of Establishment agents implication freedom is relative hers is 
within the limitations of her employers blessings and budget. The next 
section shows that the termination of their protection is only the final 
cut, the end of a process that started with Watergate. The exposure of 
criminality at the top results not in a cleaning up but an increase in 
pettiness of the activities undertaken by the secret state against targets 
so powerless compared to those setting them up, that some other motive, 
less luminous than that of national interest, must be at work. Does this 
relate to the masters and creatures of Proverbs for Paranoids?

p. 71-72 "When the sixties were over...a world based on the one and zero of 
life and death..." A moving section, extremely fine writing, and the first 
appearance of Pynchon's powerful binary metaphor -- which rolls on to the 
end of the chapter, and indeed, throughout the book. Actually, it first 
appeared near the end of The Crying of Lot 49: "For it was now like walking 
among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeros and ones twinned 
above.... Ones and Zeros. So did the couples arrange themselves...[for 
example,] either an accommodation reached...with the Angel of Death, or 
only death and the daily, tedious preparations for it. Another mode of 
meaning behind the obvious, or none." (BoW)

73.8 Flash here is shown to be non political - an outlaw/ smuggler caught 
and turned.

73.29 as Wilson Picket might have said. Which song referenced here?

73.34 Flash as aggressive complainer. Typical Pynchon inversion, underdog 
humour.

74.14 Why should we lurk about like were ashamed
Everyones a squealer

Self justification that ignores intent, while the paragraph also notes the 
replacement of spying by technological methods.

74.17-20 'Everybody's a squealer. We're in th' Info Revolution here...' - a 
Foucauldian moment - a vision of a panoptic society. It's not the last, 
either. Recall also how Frenesi muses that power has no real face anymore, 
that it has essentially disseminated through the whole structure. I mean, 
this chick actually sorta *misses* the Nixon Regime. . . . (Quail)

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