Puck (Beaverton)

[grladams at teleport.com]

Beaverton is also a location of a major Intel manufacturing plant,
Tektronix is now headquartered there. It's called the Silcon Forest. I work
in Beaverton too incidentally. It was home long ago to Native Americans
named Atfalati, who were decimated by diseases and so forth, (this is
copied from wikipedia) ultimately US, with a treaty, moved them to the
Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, in Polk County. The Spirit Mountain Casino
is one of the Grand Ronde's properties, with over 2000 slot machines,
blackjack, craps, poker, pai gow poker, roulette, and keno.


Jill

Original Message:
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From: rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:38:57 -0500
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Puck


Robin sed:

And Puck, elemental force that he be, still is is an imp, a nuisance,
AND a natural force. Because us Hippies, Ex-Hippies, Pacifists and
other generally thoughtful types like to think of "Nature
Good/Opposing Nature Bad" when confronted by a force of nature that is
bad—at least as far as we're concerned—we're sorta shell-shocked.
Puck's Nazi tattoos further identify him with "Them".
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and as I noted Puck's last name Beaverton is a town in Oregon where
Nike is headquartered--the whole Asian sweat shop deal seems right up
Golden Fang's ally and of course there is that fang-like Nike logo--so
yeah, he's one of them up the wazoo, that Puck

Part of me believes that the confrontation with Puck and Adrian is the
penultimate scene in IV and that like Mickey, Golden Fang may also be
another major MacGuffin in a way but I'm still chewing it over

rich


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