IVing IV. "I believe this is mine,/...And this, I believe......."

[alice wellintown]

Another fine synopis. I still disagree with the analysis. Penny
doesn't reaffirm anything. Unlike the statements she makes earlier,
when Larry imagines her declarative an interrogative but Pynchon marks
her sentence as a statment, "The FBI.", here Pynchon includes the
question marks, "if it was my dick?"  It's a question not an
affirmation. Of course, you missed the humpr again, as P has Penny
grabbing his dick and claiming it belongs to her. The tension remains
and the sex doesn't reaffirm or confirm that Larry has gotten over it.
This set piece rovolves around the sign on the resturaunt and the
allusion to Job. They pay the price for ...not wisdom exactly, but
information. A theme in this work: wisdom is not imformation. Wisdom
is woe and madness, but ain't never information. Larry and Penny are
trading love for information. Not a good trade. I'd short it, but I'm
kinda like a conservative investor.




On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> p. 279-280 Let's talk about sex, shall we?  Now everyone, touch the person next to you and...............
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> Penny reaffirms that Doc has no resentment: "if it was MY dick? and some
> self-satisfied lady prosecutor thought she was getting away with something?"
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> Then comes a bit of role-playing? Penny acts as if Doc is wilder than he is, pretends he is semi-ravaging her? "you drug-crazed hippie freak...get your hand out of there......." She, straightworld, although an aggressive 'modern woman' has a base of that bodice-ripping, don't, don't, Yes.....sexual character.
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> A...and the sex is good, it was mean and nasty enough..great stoned fun, writes TRP.....
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> So good it felt endless to Doc, which dit'n panic him??  Comments wanted.
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