IVIV (1) Mickey Wolfmann

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Great start, Dave. I also want to thank the rest of active IVIV
participants.

As we know, the Wolf-Man is one Freud's most famous cases. But I think
it's Deleuze&Guattari's take on the case that may prove vital here.

In A Thousand Plateaus, D&G see that SF domesticates the Wolf-Man into
a safe family triangle, makes him a dog. He cannot see that wolves are
always a multiplicity, a pack. "In becoming-wolf, the important thing
is the position of the mass, and above all the position of the subject
itself in relation to the pack or wolf-multiplicity: how the subject
joins or does not join the pack, how far away it stays, how it does or
does not hold to the multiplicity." Drawing on Canetti, D&G distinguish
mass territoriality [like real estates...] from pack deterritorialization.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3178238&pagenumber=1


Is Mickey W domesticated too, from his dreams of a desert multiplicity?

And yet: is the wolf always plural as D&G say, or are there lone wolves
like private eyes who "do not hold to the multiplicity", but are not
domesticated and massed ("straightened", "squared", what have you) either?


Heikki

P.S. The Rat Pack are not a wolf pack, I presume?

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Dave Monroe wrote:

> "'This the same Mickey Wolfmann who's always in the paper?  The
> real-estate big shot?'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 4)
>
>
> Mickey Wolfmann
>
> ... Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came
> after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of
> Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian
> Connection. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would
> likely have been familiar with this mythology.
>
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1
>
> Cf., e.g., ...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_man
>
> Wolfman Jack
>
> http://www.wolfmanjack.org/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack
>
> Or, for that matter ...
>
> http://disney.go.com/mickey/index.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse
>
> Wolfmann, Michael Zachary ("Mickey")
>
> [...]
>
> M.Z.W. initials appear the same right-side-up & upside-down.
>
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W
>
>
> "real-estate big shot"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "California real estate mogul" (Lot 49, Ch.1, p. 9)
>
> http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1
>
> Pierce Inverarity - Oedipa's ex-boyfriend and a wealthy real-estate
> tycoon. The reader never meets him directly: all encounters are
> presented through Oedipa's memories. At the beginning of the novel he
> is already dead and is said to have been extremely rich, having owned,
> at one time or another, a great deal of real property and holdings in
> California.
>
> http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Crying_of_Lot_49
>
>
> "He almost said"
>
> Cf. "'Thinks he's hallucinating'" ?
>
> As well as ...
>
> http://www.aspeers.com/2009/aghoro?fulltext
> http://steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/2009/07/against-day-by-thomas-pynchon-part-3.html
>
> bilocation
> 143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist
> simultaneously in two locations ...
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B
>
> "Could he have been the fork in the road America never took ..." (GR,
> Pt. III, p. 556)
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C
>
>
> "a '59 Eldorado Biarritz"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado
>
>
> the Esplanade
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade
>
>
> Palos Verdes
>
> http://www.palosverdes.com/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palos_Verdes
>