IV Killing Puck

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Rob Jackson wrote:

> Absolutely. Plus, Puck had already told Doc that the heroin was  
> uncut and meant to kill him (p. 325), so even without the air bubble  
> Doc knows it's a lethal injection.
Looked up air bubbles in the syringe, JC's right, the bubble's not  
lethal but the smack is. On the other hand, why did Pynch include the  
detail of air in the syringe?

On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:02 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

>>
>>  Both A.P. and Puck have attached German symbols—is this pointing  
>> to the
>> 1940's "Justifiable War"/"Last Good War?"
>>
>> So much of IV consists of an overlay of Noir conventions from the  
>> time of
>> the "Last Good War."
>
> Who can make sense of these alliances? Jews and Nazis. Black
> Nationalists and Skinheads. Why do such alliances form? This is a
> question raised in GR. We can not draw a line here and set WWII on one
> side of it and post-WWII on the other side, call one good and the
> other not-good even if we put "good" in quotes. Can we? This is a
> Pynchon novel not a conventional Noir fiction. Larry still can't make
> sense of it all. Neither can we.

Again, echos of plot threads from GR.