IVing IV. "Can you read any of this?" p. 277

[Mark Kohut]

Doc trusts a (not-bright) friend's words on a new restaurant.......
Not like it is a first date to impress...............
In fact, we soon learn he did not have any expectation of even feeling desire, much less getting laid, but she surprises him.........
yes, she is a 'modern gal"........"let's stop for pizza on the way".....

He, too, doesn't 'get' the place and sez so...........

But, yes, she wants info to look good, get ahead. It turns her on. More 'modern galness'. 

--- On Mon, 11/30/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVing IV. "Can you read any of this?" p. 277
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 7:06 PM
> Poor Larry, he doesn't know how to
> handle a modern gal. He takes her
> to a place he's never been to; a place Denis turned him
> onto no less.
> Penny could care less, but she siezes the opportunity to
> claim she has
> been harmed by Larry's decision to take her to a dump, and
> pops the
> question: are you pissed at me? Are you getting back at me?
> Now that
> I'm sitting in this rotten rat invested greasy troom or an
> eating
> house about to be assaulted by barf burgers and the bottom
> of the
> rabbit cage scraps, can we touch, shake hands, start over,
> even saint
> stephen? So, like, I want to move up from little miss
> g-girl, and as a
> woman, it won't be easy, soooo, help me out.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 276-7 satirizes the then-new health food kind of
> restaurant...
> >
> > and Penny uses the occasion--"could be construed as a
> hostile act"
> > to bring up the question of pissed-offedness......
> >
> > She rationalizes she was returning a favor. Doc says
> he is over it.
> > Penny says his kind all hate the FBI. Doc protests "I
> was a junior
> > G-Man!"....he has always aspired up?
> >
> > There's a junior G-man allusion in GR, yes?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>