IVIV (11) opening talk

[Mark Kohut]

Clement Levy observes:
As he heard about Sledge Poteet, an ex-client, in chapter 1, p. 15, he will actually meet in chapter 11 Japonica Fenway, a girl he looked for on his "first paying gig as a licensed private eye".

How mcuh do we know for sure, for good guess, of Doc's timeline? What year of the sixties do we think this first paying gig was?

And notice it was to 'save' a young girl/woman. More Ross Macdondald-like than Chandler in homage. 

Mark



--- On Mon, 10/19/09, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com>
> Subject: IVIV (11) opening talk
> To: "P-list -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 7:27 PM
> Hi there, fellows, I'm hosting
> chapter 11 for a week. I hope to feed the list and my guest
> with as many comments, remarks, and questions as possible.
> As an intro, I would like to recall a few easy links with
> what we've been told earlier in the novel.
> 
> In chapter 9, Doc met Boris Spivey, one of Mickey
> Wolfmann's Aryan Brotherhood bodyguards. At the end of
> chapter 11, Doc will meet another witness of some
> importance.
> 
> In chapter 10, interviewing a pimp named Jason Velveeta
> (did anybody notice velvet painting mentioned earlier in the
> novel, p. 6, on the streets, on sunday mornings? could his
> name be related to these "window[s] to look out"?), and
> learns that the Golden Fang is an Indochinese heroin cartel
> (and not the boat anymore, or both?). In chapter 11, Doc
> will remember a place where he went to "score" and he will
> try to go there again for a strange reason. But this is the
> place he will find the office of Golden Fang Enterprise!
> aren't we on something great?
> 
> As he heard about Sledge Poteet, an ex-client, in chapter
> 1, p. 15, he will actually meet in chapter 11 Japonica
> Fenway, a girl he looked for on his "first paying gig as a
> licensed private eye".
> 
> Like in chapter 9, there will be a dangerous ride, not
> because Doc is trying to escape an angry follower (Coy? the
> Boards?), but because the driver, Japonica, seems out of her
> mind, which the police quickly notice.
> 
> We read in this chapter many cars' makers and models' names
> (as before), but Doc soon cannot use his Dart. He will get
> some very valuable info when he'll pick it up in Beverly
> Hills at the end of this chapter.
> 
> Only one song here of which the title is mentioned. Why is
> there so little music in chapter 11?
> 
> In this chapter Doc will find information the greek way and
> many things will seem to connect together.
> 
> After all, the chapter 11 is in somehow in the middle of
> the novel (21 chapters as a whole, 369 pages: it makes the
> very heart of the book between pp. 184 and 185, right at the
> end of chapter 11).
> 
> 'Tis all for now. Clement
> 
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