IVIV (1) Can't Buy Me Love
John Carvill
johncarvill at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 08:14:03 CDT 2009
> The title notes are enough to get the message through. It sounds like
> a typical American story we know from so many movies & books: the
> married man pays for the apartment his girlfriend lives in, her ex is
> calling her a whore, more or less, in this case trying to cover it
> with professional curiosity.
Yes, she's the classic 'kept woman', is what Doc is implying. Of
course, she's worse than that, or so it seems.
I know I'm pushing this too far, almost certainly, but I just thought
there might be some more significance in Pynchon referring to the
'title notes', rather than, say, 'the refrain'. Title might refer to
the book's title, money being the 'Inherent Vice' or 'root of all
evil'. Notes, obviously, are what money often comes in. I dunno. That
and the 'love' thing, the Sixties, Doc pondering on love maybe just
being 'one of those words' that's going around (don't have the exact
quote to hand), y'know, the choice of song pointing up a few of teh
book's thematic concerns.
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