IVIV Golden Fang = "The Man"?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Doug Millison wrote:
>
>> And, even in this so-called "lightweight beach read"

A worthy, albeit deeply cynical, follow-up to The Crying of Lot 49 . . .

>> 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

Also overabundant in CoL49

>> and the rest of the red herrings he distributes here as through all  
>> his novels.  Who knows what the Golden Fang really is

Late 20th century global capitalism?

>> or if Pynchon brings in Lemuria because of the influence that myth  
>> had on Nazi ideology

. . .Or because that was H.I.P.P.* in 1970 L.A.—the sort of "inner  
tradition" TRP was hearing about from his own, personal Sortilège? I'm  
mean, the dude plays with cards, astrology—just look up what's in the  
more or less public record. There's plenty of useful references to odd  
'n veiled spiritual traditions and "that useful substance" is all over  
the available hagiography.

>> or if Mickey W is supposed to be Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes is Howard Hughes, Mickey Wolfmann is About Howard  
Hughes. The Beach Boys are the Beach Boys, the Boards are About the  
Beach Boys and thanks to the Terry Melcher connection, also the Byrds.  
You get a few clues if you look at the Beach Boys 1970 album, their  
first for Reprise—"Sunflower."

	Starting in 1970, though, with Sunflower, the group began a
	new period of artistic growth. They began to operate as a super-
	group, in a fashion similar to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
	(During this period they even added two young black players,
	Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar, as their rhythm section, in a
	fashion similar to CSN

http://www.reasontorock.com/artists/beach_boys.html

http://recordingsunflower.blogspot.com/

>> (and I appreciate all that you dug up on that one, Robin!),

Still digging. For my angle looks like Watergate was really all about  
Howard Hughes. There's little question in my mind that "the mob behind  
the mob" are the  Hughes boys and somewhere around chapter 14 of  
Inherent Vice the author more or less comes to the same conclusion.  
You've got to readjust you eyesight just so . . .

>>  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.

As it is in the drug trade's new central location, Afganistan, circa  
2009.

You don't mess with the Golden Fang.

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