IV 15 259-261

[Mark Kohut]

Drybeam also made me think drywall. 

the internets: bits (of light?) thru walls?

--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> Subject: IV 15 259-261
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 1:50 AM
> Fritz calls to tell Doc Shasta landed
> 2 days ago at LAX
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> Fritz Drybeam-  Interesting name- Given the context,
> one thinks of the noir film director Fritz Lang. Drybeam
> made me  think of a beam of light.  Film noir is
> all about harsh angular  lighting. FD is using the
> Arpanet to look into hidden things but how useful his
> searches are is not clear, and on 258 he tells Doc that the
> FBI is watching back and asking him why he is so interested
> in Shasta.
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> The line that jumps for me on this page is "Glenn Charlock
> is still dead, but hey, who cares about the criminal element
> , right?"
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> He keeps complaining till Fritz says it's Doc's problem
> now.   Fritz has been spending too much time
> with the Arpanet and needs to get back to chasing down skips
> and deadbeats. There is a constant tension between working
> to address real crimes of violence and serving the quasi
> legal machinery and interests of the powers that be.
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> Fritz doesn't want to look into Puck; seems to know this is
> dangerous territory.
> 
> Clearly, my reading  in the chapter summary of of the
> incident with the gold copper traces and Noguchi was wrong.
> I missed the joke with 'calling in the lab' and Doc was
> referring to an historic incident where Noguchi was
> suspended for a month.  No p-listers seem to have
> noticed or cared.
> 
> The recurrent theme of Zombies shows up when Doc watches a
> Zombie Movie but falls asleep before the part at the end
> that confuses him. Zombies seem to be IV's Thanatoids, a
> rather darker take on the living dead. Still we get the idea
> that Doc thinks about Zombies as  karmically real and
> doesn't want to be one. This movie is about 2 brother's
> rivalry over a woman , ending when one( manipulated buy a
> voodoo priest) stabs the others wife and he and she end up
> dead, floating in the surf. Maybe P is forecasting how Doc
> is manipulated by Bigfoot into a violent confrontation with
> AP and PB.
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