VL-IV p33, 34

[Michael Bailey]

Hmm, you know how a great book is different every time you read it?
Now I'm seriously warped around the idea of Pynchon seeing My Dinner
With Andre (1981) and blocking out the seminal scene with Hector and
Zoyd as sort of reply or development.

Regardless of that, this section is a great scene-setter, with
glimpses into the deeper Zoyd, the introduction of Frenesi, and
really, of many of the book's themes and conflicts, and climaxing in
Hector's departure through the kitchen with the NEVER ("you? Never?
DID the Kenosha Kid?) people in hot pursuit.

p32 - "heavy boots, all in step" wow, never noticed that before.
NEVER's camo-clad minions are more paramilitary than medical.

p33 - Ex luce ad sanitatem - "out of light into health?"

Zoyd gets a business card...as we know, he tends to hang onto those...

p 34 - "Hector, who it now seemed was some sort of escaped lunatic,
was still at large."
So the person who's been, yes, hectoring Zoyd to conform turns out to
be speaking from a position of lunacy.  This is satisfying, of course.
 But disturbing too.

for good measure, the lyrics to the Brady Bunch

It's the story of a lovely lady,
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold,
Like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.

It's the story of a man named Brady
Who was busy with three boys of his own.
They were four men living all together,
A-yeah, but they were all alone.

Till then one day,
A-one day,
When the lady met this fellow
And they knew,
And they knew
It was much more than a hunch
That the group,
A-this group
Must somehow form a family.
That's the way,
That's the way,
That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch.

Well, the Brady Bunch,
Yeah, the Brady Bunch,
Well, the Brady Bunch.
Oh, it's the Brady Bu-unch...

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"Feliz Navidad"