IVIV (0) Dustjacket

[Mark Kohut]

I think I know the color Robin is referring to, often used to mark books
that are "remainders" for sale tables. There are other near-neon-like
markings signifying this, but marked somewhere on the outside of the closed pages, not on a jacket as with Inherent Vice.  But Robin was just referring to the color, I know. 

I cannot easily locate it, but I believe the color pink is riffed on within Inherent Vice? Anyone remember?

However, I must say, given all of the pussy-eating references in IV, that pink also reminded me, ever since I heard it, of a, well, ah......Carrie Fisher's novel.

"The title term, surrender the pink, is a colloquialism pertaining to male sexual advances to a female. It comes from the phrase, "They're all pink on the inside."




--- On Mon, 8/17/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (0) Dustjacket
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 7:18 PM
> I photocopied the flap, of course you
> probably have the book. Show it to someone in the book trade
> and they will know what I'm talking about. But I could not
> find an online example of "remainder spray."
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 10:42 AM, David Payne wrote:
> 
> > 3. Robin suggested the pink on the flaps was
> "remainder paint" and someone asked for a picture of
> "remainder paint." Did anyone ever find a pic?
> 
>