IVIV(12): Screen-Door Salesmen

[Dave Monroe]

   "Dr. Threeply was a shifty specimen with that quality now and then
observed in aluminum-siding and screen-door salesmen of once having
been through somethingh--a marriange, a criminal
proceeding--traumaticv enough to have torqued him permannetly out of
tolerance, so that now he had to beg potential clients to ignore this
unsepcified characater handicap." (IV, Ch. 12, p. 187)

".. the high frequency squeal of a TV sweep circuit through a screen
door [...] to be followed by the more worldy sound [...] of the Bugs
Bunny/Road Runner Hour." (IV, Ch. 12,  p. 199)

"... sounds from neighbors through windowsceens ...." (IV, Ch. 12, p. 201)


Screen-door salesmen

447; "dumb and easygoing" husband of woman in Slothrop's dream in
three parts; 665, "Minnie Calkins (Chapter 1.793) got married Easter
Sunday to a screen-door salesman from California. Sorry to say he's
not eligible for Membership - at least not yet. But with all those
screen doors around, we'll sure keep our fingers crossed!"

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/s.html

Calkins, Minnie

665; Mason who married screen-door salesman

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#

"Security." Her voice is perfectly hard, the word still clap-echoing
in the air as in through the screen door of the Quonset office wth a
smell of tide flats come the coppers, looking grim. Security. Her
magic word, her spell against demons." (GR, Pt, IV, p.709)

http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&pg=PA709

"Mucho Maas, home, bounded through the screen door." (Lot 49, Ch. 1, p. 3)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8569911/Thomas-Pynchon-The-Crying-of-Lot-49

Grid

"a glittering map. . .ruled off into 576 squares" 55; sieves, 56;
"crosshatchings of his black rubber soles" 70; "corporate lattice" 75;
"Dutch grid's 380 volts" 101; "to keep Grid Time synchronized with
Greenwich Mean Time" 133; "the Grid runs inching ever faster" 134;
"Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways" 176; "back in
France's power grid" 190; "Forget subdivisions" 294; 400; ego as grid,
404; "the holy grid" 404; "screen door salesman" 447 ...

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/g.html#grid

Slothrop leads us to the Rockefellers much as a proverb from Ben
Franklin transforms into a quote from Mark Hanna leads to old John D.
Rockefeller, whose schoolchum Hanna was. Hanna was not a “nickel
magnate” as Pynchon slyly asserts; if he was any kind of “magnate” it
was in Great Lakes shipping. Most definitely he was John D.
Rockefeller’s boyhood pal, and later, at the turn of the century, he
was US senator from Ohio. He was a leader in Republican politics,
known as Rockefeller’s political fundraiser and king maker.

We should remember that Ohio was the hub of Republican politics during
the period, and that Cleveland was the seat of the Standard Oil Trust.
Mark Hanna was responsible for the political careers of both McKinley
and Taft, and his machine was largely instrumental in having each
become president....

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/inferno.htm