IVIV Golden Fang = "The Man"?

[Mark Kohut]

love it....brilliant even if it is....I'm not sayin it is!---a stretch.

--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IVIV  Golden Fang = "The Man"?
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:47 PM
> "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.
> > 
> > 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)
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>