IVIV (1) Show Business Yearnings

[Mark Kohut]

The future is a boot in the face forever. (perhaps not exact)----1984

--- On Wed, 8/26/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) Show Business Yearnings
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 3:04 PM
> 1. Alright, I've been subjected to
> the Rorschach Test way too many times, so it's no wonder
> that "Bigfoot" jogs my memories of Card #IV, often called
> the Daddy Card.  Like some people (the most twisted, no
> doubt), I always focussed on the big feet or boots of the
> apparently wolf-like creature (pointedly NOT making any
> genital references).  It's repped to be the card that
> deals with daddy and male authority-figure issues.
> 
> 
> "A card with only black ink formed in a triangle-shaped
> blot. The two lower corners are often described as shoes or
> boots. This card may also be seen as viewing a person from
> below or a male figure with an enormous sex organ."
> 
> http://deltabravo.net/custody/rorschach.php 
> (scroll down to Card IV)
> 
> 2.  I trotted out this Sylvia Plath poem during the
> Lake discussion in ATD (or was it the Frenesi discussion?),
> but it also seems apt here:
> 
> http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=356
> 
> particularly:
> 
> Every woman adores a Fascist,
> The boot in the face, the brute
> Brute heart of a brute like you.
> 
> Laura
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> 
> >
> >   "Like many L.A. cops, Bigfooot, named
> for his entry method of
> >choice, harbored show business yearnings ..." {IV, Ch.
> 1, p. 9)
> >
> >http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf
> 
>