IVIV (8): Downstairs Eddie

[Michael Bailey]

 alice wellintown  wrote:
>>
>> - wine salesman, symbolic purveyor of the blood of the Lamb...
>> - ...not a "cute meet" but a "love at first sight" meet, interrupting
>> a game of chance with knowledge of certainty...
>> - "Now you're sure you don't want that" - could Pynchon be asking the
>> Elect if they really
>> want to discard the Preterite?
>
> Not sure what you are saying here.

I'm making different, anthropocentric, associations.  I don't care enough about
postmodernism and theories of social control to read a novel about them.
I'm interested in connecting the dots to make a bunny.

> The Rummy Gane connects them with
> Bonnie and Clyde and the The Postman ALways Rings Twice, Novels,
> FIlms, Characters, Biographies, Celebrity. >

the rummy game in Bonnie & Clyde I'll have to take your word for,
I see something online about a variant of Rummy called Bonnie & Clyde,
but unless my search skills have deserted me (entirely possible)
nothing of "rummy" appears in either the wikipedia or imdb articles on
the movie.

Yes it was a big hit in the 60s. But  millions of rummy games are played
each year by people who never rob a bank.

 Although alcohol abuse is a terrible scourge, people
do give their kids booze, and in drug class the book said that cultures where
this is the case (Italy, France...) have lower levels of alcohol
abuse.  It seems
only reasonable that a kid brought up in a family that made a living selling
booze would be exposed to the stuff, and that the Official Truth of Alcohol
as purveyed by the State (that it must be taxed and controlled, and that a
mighty magic appears on one's 18th or 21st birthday which makes one capable
of drinking) might be received therein as less than gospel.

If Doc used a comb would he be automatically a hideous leering ctenophile?

"Symbolic purveyor of the Blood of the Lamb" is laying it on a little thick,
I guess, but drinks are prominent in all Pynchon and one doesn't have to
leap, more of a short hop, to the conclusion that it's a bit of a
sacrament to him...

unless he mentions it just to deplore it...

I bow to the aptness of many of your references,
but sometimes it seems like everything is slanted in a direction of despair.
I want to throw up my hands and say,
"have it your way, it's just as you say, the world is ugly and the
people are sad"

> What's REAL/REEL? Who is
> running the projector? Projecting their world for them? Is it them or
> THEM?

all the specific mentions of directors, actors, even lighting people f'r Pete's
sake, militate against the notion that IV is trying to inculcate any confusion
about where movies come from...



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