IVing IV 'indict a bean burrito', p. 277

[alice wellintown]

I gotta agree with JB; this is a very important statement. It jumps
out at us. There are several of these key sentences in the text and
we've done a good job of identifying them. This one characterizes the
protagonist-narrator Larry/Doc. It's kinda like Richard III saying
"Now is the Winter of our Discontent." The notion never disappears, it
is central to our reading of the protagonist and his plots. Like
Richard, Doc is an attractive, yet offensive figure from the start,
but P works hard to make the reader complicit so we, at least those of
us who keep reading, must go along with Doc/Larry, but we also
understand that we have been entrapped and the ironies and ambiguities
that spring from this realization are what mahe the text ... well ...a
Pynchon text. Warm excrement loaded with corns and other gems excreted
across the boarders, over the rainbows, boldly where no man has dumped
before.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:48 PM, John Bailey wrote:
>
>> It all seems distinctly at odds with that peculiar early line -
>> "Anyone with any claim to hipness 'loved' everybody, not to mention
>> other useful applications, like hustling people into sex activities
>> they might not, given the choice, much care to engage in."
>>
>> Where does this notion disappear to after page 5? Never gets picked up
>> again.
>
> Like a lot of things in Pynchon, once mentioned it is then on display
> without actually being named.
>