Imipolex G

[Thomas Eckhardt]

One of my pet theories is that these things may be explained by 
Pynchon's indebtedness to "Moby Dick". You may project whatever you wish 
upon the whale's inscrutable brow...

But perhaps this is not about white whales but about red herrings.

Thomas


Tore Rye Andersen schrieb:

> rich:
>
>> Marguerite Erdmann wears it [Imipolex G] too doesn't she?
>
>
> She does, on p. 488 where we hear that this exotic costume is made of 
> "some black polymer."
> But, as David Morris pointed out, on p. 436 Slothrop finds a "white 
> knight, molded out of plastic" (Imipolex G). A-and on p. 754 we hear 
> of Gottfried's Imipolex shroud that it is "gray-white, mocking, an 
> enemy of color." Black, white, gray-white, an enemy of color - which 
> do you want it to be?
>
> Incidentally, the color is not the only ambiguous aspect of Imipolex 
> G. On p. 249 we hear that:
>
> "Imipolex G has proved to be nothing more - or less - sinister than a 
> new plastic, an aromatic heterocyclic polymer, developed in 1939, 
> years before its time, by one L. Jamf for IG Farben."
>
> But on p. 286 it's implied that Imipolex G was used in the experiments 
> on Infant Tyrone (who was born around 1918, remember), that is: twenty 
> years prior to its invention. And of course, to make matters even 
> worse, on p. 738 "world-renowned analyst Mickey Wuxtry-Wuxtry" opines 
> that: "There never was a Dr. Jamf"!
>
> Curiouser and curiouser....
>
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