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

[rich]

with Pynchon tho Mark even misreadings sure end up in some pretty
interesting places

when I first read the not you bong brain bit I could see why Doc
thought he'd be not only watching the action but participating
rich

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