IV 15 p256 reprogramming the cash flow

[John Bailey]

Mmmm, re-read the later Shasta bits today and I'm more confused. In
their last meeting she admits that she lied about going up north to
visit family (the way she puts it sort of puts the kybosh on the
brainwashing thing) and says she sent the postcard after escaping the
Golden Fang. By why send a postcard (indirectly) directing Doc to GF
HQ? Hardly a friendly thing to do. She can't really expect him to
bring down the organisation. And points to Richard for noting that
Shasta's an actor. It's hard to trust her.

But maybe IV is the novel where Pynchon stops trying to describe
paranoia and instead tries to engender it in the reader. Gottdurnit, I
don't trust anyone in this freaking tale.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>  . . .
>>
>> My reading is that she and Mickey Wolfmann have been been
>> successfully reprogrammed. . .
>
> I think that Shasta has been an operative all along.
> She just happens to stroll into Doc's life and drop stuff about a plan of
> Sloane and Riggs which is possibly the plan in which she is a cog.
> She is able to send a postcard while kidnapped.
> She knows where the Golden Fang HQ on Sunset is.
> She's in the movie biz and supposedly can act.
> We can't know who is running her but she is run.
>
>> ( I think the implication is that this is in
>> the provenance of CIA MK ultra types, or Golden Fang Blatnoyd types
>> which is the fictional version).
>
> Please consult Adam Curtis and Naomi Klein about the long 20th century
> history of mind control and marketing.
> We recall that CIA is run by and reports to the US President. Who runs the
> President?  Probably the elites of which Japonica's father is a member.
> Recall Blatnoyd.
>
>
>