VLVL(12) pgs 226-238

[rich]

Michael Bailey sed:

Eigenvalue the dentist in V. was famous for deprecating conspiracies
in favor of random caries; Elasmo the dentist in Vineland is working
for Vond, surely a somewhat paranoid formulation -- like Ditzah Pisk
progresses people's astrological charts, Pynchon has progressed the
dentist into an agent of Cointelpro.  With ready access to subjects
and neurological agents, a dental chair is a potent locus of
brainwashing and terror (Marathon Man, wasn't it? and also, the
In-Laws - Peter Falk the CIA agent finds that he can fairly easily
co-opt Alan Arkin the dentist out of civilian status into agentry)
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one could then infer that the Golden Fang described as a group of
dentists (or a huge tax dodge) in Inherent Vice is some sort of
Tristero?

rich