Japonica Fenway

[Joseph Tracy]

Japonica-  means "of Japan", or "Japanese"  In IV  another connection  
to the Asian side of the pacific rim and possibly to the US ( Crocker  
Fenway owns the police) presumed paternal ownership of Japan and our  
desire to control Japan's appetites.

Japonica is a common name for species or hybrids of flowering quince,  
members of the genus Chaenomeles.

Japonica is a short-grain variety of rice (Oryza sativa subsp.  
japonica), as opposed to the long-grain Indica (O. sativa subsp. indica)

Japonica (butterfly) is a genus of the Theclinae subfamily of  
butterflies

So she may be a fruit loop ( quince), but she is associated with the  
resurrection ( butterfly).

Fenway- the ballpark and important region of Boston. Original owner  
and builder of Park owned Fenway realty.To my thinking implies old  
money and All American
Fen- a neutral to alkali wetland.

Japonica Fenway has serious psychological problems but is seeing a  
kind of gnostic truth that Blatnoyd can't see.  She sees that the  
DemiGod rules in this region of LA and his eyes are everywhere. Later  
we find out Crocker Fenway( the Prince of Palos Verdes) is a lot like  
John Huston(Noah Cross)  in  the great 70's noir Chinatown( directed  
by Roman Polanski, who ties into our story becauseS Tate was Manson's  
victim). He is murderously and sexually obsessed with Japonica. Freud  
was taken down a notch when it was seen that a high percentage of his  
psychotically troubled female clients were the victims of sexual  
abuse, and he seemed to have known this tie but suppressed it in  
favor of his more indirect psychosexual theories.

By making Japonica, the relatively weak and fucked over but feisty  
victim of the Golden Fang and her own Father, a central figure in  
this detective drama, and having her turn towards a delusional   
apocalypticism, Pynchon is exploring the mindset of the current batch  
of end time apocalyptics who dismiss the real power conspiracies in  
favor of a good guys vs bad guys Armageddon.  Part of what disables  
this group is their delusional sense that America is their Daddy,  
their protector, their noble forefather ordained by God.