IV Killing Puck

[Henry M]

Pynchon is probably is aware that air bubbles don't kill.  Everybody
got air-bubble in the syringe fear from B movies.  By the way, they do hurt,
and maybe all of that is the point: pain before being sedated to death.

AsB4,
Henry Mu
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.




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AsB4,

Henry
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