IVIV Golden Fang = "The Man"?

[Doug Millison]

"De-penis" minus P = Denis
pronounced "D-ness"
  which might be read as a reference to the delta of the famous delta-T,
  or maybe that V-shaped delta formed at the site of the pussy-eating  
so celebrated in Inherent Vice.…


>>
>> "Well, if the Counterforce knew better what those
>> categories concealed, they might be in a better position to
>> disarm, de-penis, and dismantle the Man. … The Man has a
>> branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is
>> a white albatross, each rep has a local cover known as the
>> Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. We do know
>> what's going on, and we let it go on."  (GR 712-713)


Agreed Pynchon is a genius.

And, even in this so-called "lightweight beach read"  he be stickin'  
it to The Man, big time. P seems to have everybody  or entertained or  
at least distracted with the so-called juvenile humor and the rest of  
the red herrings he distributes here as through all his novels.  Who  
knows what the Golden Fang really is or if Pynchon brings in Lemuria  
because of the influence that myth had on Nazi ideology, or if Mickey  
W is supposed to be Howard Hughes (and I appreciate all that you dug  
up on that one, Robin!),  it's 100 percent certain that in 1970,  on  
the other side of Pacific  from California, out there in that fog the  
US is sinking ever deeper into the Vietnam swamp of blood.


On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> GREAT REMINDER, esp., once again, of how extensively subtle such is  
> in TRP's work/vision.
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> branch office....white [!] albatross [!]....Ego.....Bad Shit....
> God, he's a genius.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
>> Subject: IVIV  Golden Fang = "The Man"?
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 11:24 AM
>>
>> malignheehee:
>>> Can't you please get over referring to "The Man"?
>>
>> No, thank you.
>>
>> "Well, if the Counterforce knew better what those
>> categories concealed, they might be in a better position to
>> disarm, de-penis, and dismantle the Man. … The Man has a
>> branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is
>> a white albatross, each rep has a local cover known as the
>> Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. We do know
>> what's going on, and we let it go on."  (GR 712-713)
>>
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