IVIV, "the place was turning out to be bigger inside than out", p.21

[rich]

u talking about that 'massage' parlor here?

cause that community is based (or debased if u will) on money and only
that; from free love to handjob joints (so-called)
tho the view is satiric, based upon other statments about love in IV,
one could assume Pynchon is making a point about even the
commercialization of desire, eh?

rich

On 8/31/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A favorite trope of Pynchon's used in M & D---inside of carriages--and
> elsewhere?....
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> Where people, men & women, 'get together", share space, togetherness,
> company--and much more here in IV.....Talk about authorial intent: the
> author is portraying this house; water-beds, mirrored ceilings, strobe
> lights, musk-scented smoke, etc. as a great good time, yes?
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