Fwd: Invisible Man

[bob mccart]

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From: bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2006 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Invisible Man
To: terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com>

You may be on to something. After reading On the Road, the road in V becomes
much more significant to me--as well as the sewer and that sort of thing.
But not just that, but Slothrop's similarities to Dean--especially the
disapearing end sort of bit --dispersing I should say. THe style of mumbo
jumbo (only Reed ive read so far--damn bookstores dont seem to carry him
bunch of fascists commie rats as big as cats) seems very similar to GR.
Always wondered, I have, what bit of Reed the old Pynchon or Pynchon's
narrator refers to on page god knows somewhere in the middle. What was out
then? Style , was it the same? How do you see Mumbo Jumbo --the old MJ-- as
similar to Vineland--

yo


On 8/25/06, terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Wha? Watts? Lot49?
>
> Isn't Slothrop Ellison's Invisible Man? Sure he is. And the overt
>
> allusions to Ellison's classic should be obvious to anyone who just
>
> re-read the novel. Consider that Invisible Man ends up just like Slothrop,
>
> in the sewer, under ground, underworld. Remember that Malcolm is there  too.
>
> And remember that Invisible Man works in a paint factory. Now, how many paint (dye)
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> factories does Slothrop "work" run for his life in? Ain't there
>
> some strange shit in GR about a Jewish lightninged paint factory?
>
> Didn't Slothrop do that old I'm Hiter the house painter bit?
>
> Invisible Man walks in on a Union Meeting. Just trying to get
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> lunch ... ends up getting a rocket to the face. Ends up being
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> a subject in some Pointsman's hospital-factory. And check out the cure ...
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> the treatment the brotha gets. Ain't that something like
>  what
>
> happens to Slothrop too. And when he gets out of the factory-hospital.
>
> that what's her name (Black woman who takes him in, he smashes
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> her piggy and books ... is it Mary), kinda like that doll Slothrop
>
>  can't find and nobody, not even the reader, can find ... is G O N E.
>
> MMMMM, and ain't Invisible Man all doped up and messed up from the
>
> treatment, but that's when he, kinda like when Slothrop discovers
>
> that he's an Invisible American trying to be invisible to
>
> the Americans, begins to see. He begins, and maybe this is the
>
> Oedipa trip, America ... in the streets, in the trash and
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> memories tossed out on the street, disposessed ....
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>
>
> anyway, I think VL is indebted to Mumbo Jumbo and GR to I M.
>
>
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