IVIV Bigfoot

[Mark Kohut]

Yea, to retrace on our littlefeet: Bigfoot 'busts Doc's chops' verbally from the beginning. "congratulations, hippie scum' and more with a level of joviality we have to judge the true hostility of, I'd say. 

if lower-case individual fascism is, metaphorically, acting against another's rights without proper authority, then Doc's car is impounded early, with no reason given....."cold even for you, Bigfoot", sez Doc...

Bigfoot accuses Doc of being "unable, dare I say 'unwilling' to explain his presence at the scene of two crimes"......that 'unwilling' is P's bit o' talent in capturing the quality of Doc's incipient loss of a right to be presumed innocent, of BFoot's pre-emptive negative judgment.If none dare call it fascism, then call it something else. 

Bigfoot is where a largely good-hearted character meets The State in Inherent Vice. A Pynchon-as anti-State(sman) tradition, so to speak. 

A...and, not least, two of Pynchon's bag of symbols hang around Bigfoot: Barbed-wire, see BAD SHIT especially in GR and the good shit of bananas, which are all Tore Rye said they are in Pynchon's world----except when frozen, crystallized into an anti-banana as it were.   

Bigfoot's hostility masks real manipulative betrayal---"you set me up" sez Doc rightly. 


--- On Fri, 11/6/09, dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV Bigfoot
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 5:09 PM
> #yiv854678172 p
> {margin:0;}The
> barbed wire may be worth considering. A barbed-wire
> collector out there in the Wild Wild West of Western
> Collectibilia is not a rare bird, but a corrupt police
> officer into high-end collectible barbed wire…may I go way
> out on a limb and suggest at least a whiff of fascism,
> concentration camps & etc. in the characterization of
> this fine peace officer?
>