VL---IV Volare

[Mark Kohut]

p. 59. Superfuck, Cf. Superman, of course and Cf. Super Fly, 70s hit movie. "A home, a vine, his woman, that's all he wants out of life now"---from IMDB on Super Fly. "He has a plan to stick it to the Man!     As Superfuck he IS the Man, of course.

p. 59 bodyfist. Clear from context, I think, but Pynchon's verbal creation, it seems.

p.59. Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the blue painted blue"), popularly known as "Volare" (Italian for the infinitive form of the verb "to fly"). See Super Fly above. There was a Plymouth---TRP's most-cited car---Volare in the 70s, which used the song in commercials.

Given P's theme of VIneland/life as simulacra; given the implied theme of the loss of "the natural", I am astonished at the sublime beauty of TRP using "Nel blu dipinto di blue" ("In the blue painted blue")----Natural blue was not enough! (to describe Frenesi's eys).....Not any kind of described natural blue.......

In J. Rosenbaum's so-smart essay, which Dave sent around---thanks, Dave, you are my RSS feed for so much---he notices the color blue as a VL motif.
He doesn't essay a reason (yet)....I suggest that, in general, maybe, blue pervades VL like ghosts, loss----I suggest that blue largely means what 'feeling blue" 
usually means. Vineland is a sad, sick country.
Sometimes a blue cigar, etc.

p. 59 Have you ever seen an EMPTY beer can sink.... that fast? A little slip from OBA?
The surfer has cosmic suspicions; thinks it may have been a small meteor?? Airhead? simple-minded paranoid?