ATDTDA (15): Squealing is good for you, 420-422 #2

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/17/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Before the meeting we're told that Alonzo is "[e]xempt ... from the
> ... his "kindly seamed face" ... his personal gold-plated IG Mundharfwerke"
> ... "desktop chaotically littered with books, papers, and (embarrassingly)
> outright refuse ..." etc. Such chaos is a series of competing narratives ...

Again, a figure even more enigmatic than Mr. Ace, who at least gets a
few lines of dialogue in.    But note again how "the 'Old Man'" is
described, first off, scare-quoted, but that "bobbed," that "its,"
those "gold teeth" (likely a Bad Sign in Pynchon), hints of McClintic
Sphere in V. (those 'seams," that instrument), and unmistakable
allusions to Tyrone Slothrop in GR (the desk, the toilet) ...