VL-IV: Chap7-Wayvone wedding

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The new San Mateo bridge, visible from the Wayvone estate, would have just been completed at the time the story takes place.

http://photovalet.com/SBYV01P05_06.html


Nice image of taking a vacation in time rather than space, but the sentence has an odd ending:

"[Ralph Sr.] could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of them."  One of them?

"…executive whose idea of power is a secretary on her knees under his desk…" 

Oddly prescient of Clinton-Lewinsky.  Did Pynchon have a Chief Exec like Nixon, Reagan or Daddy Bush in mind when he wrote that line?  We’re told that Mafioso Wayvone is not this type of exec, but Brock Vond certainly is.  Wayvone has more of a kinship with Frenesi than Brock does, both being the type to end up in the witness protection program.  With his shrink, family values and movie connections, Wayvone comes across as a pre-Soprano.  Who knows, maybe the Soprano write-staff picked up some ideas here.

Laura