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

[Mark Kohut]

A...and I think the misreading also had one of the causes that I immediately thought the phrase was one of P's positive resonances....

Which does tilt toward your general belief that, sometimes, we are making too much of some things in this book. 

Sometimes a bigger room is just bigger than the reception desk indicates.  

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV, "the place was turning out to be bigger inside than out",  p.21
> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:42 PM
> Yea, very good point you make....I
> think I have misread based on thinking
> he was somewhere else in the 'miniplaza of shops' and never
> getting out of my head that the Pussy-Eater's Special was
> like a restaurant dish.....
> 
> And, then, thinking restaurant, I thought couples go there
> as well......
> 
> Is "out in the hallway" still in the massage parlor?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- On Mon, 8/31/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: IVIV, "the place was turning out to be
> bigger inside than out",  p.21
> > To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:29 PM
> > 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?....
> > >
> > > 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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