IVIV (1) Shasta

[Mark Kohut]

Yes to 'betrayal' and a great allusive echo find.

--- On Tue, 8/25/09, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> Subject: IVIV (1) Shasta
> To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 11:35 AM
> "Tonight she was all in flatland
> gear, hair a lot shorter than he
> remembered, looking just like she swore she’d never
> look."
> 
> Someone has "betrayed" his former "ideology" - "looking
> just like she
> swore she’d never look."
> 
> That "hair a lot shorter than he remembered" reminds me of
> something
> I've read on the second page of "The Big Sleep", where
> Marlowe says
> something about hair that is much shorter than the actual
> fashion
> would require. Got the German text only:
> 
> "Sie hatte hübsche lohfarbenes Haar, das viel kürzer
> geschnitten war,
> als es die derzeitige Mode mit ihren eingerollten
> Pagenkopffransen
> verlangte."
> (- "Der große Schlaf", Diogenes, Zürich 1974, p. 6)
> 
>