IVIV (11) opening talk

[Mark Kohut]

yes, Velveeta is, literally but metaphorically too, simply cheesy.

As are those pop velvet paintings...............

--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (11) opening talk
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 1:08 AM
> Welcome, Clement!  Thanks for
> the insights on this un-musical chapter.
> 
> I have a few hen's teeth, er, responses to host
> comments...
> 
> 
> >>
> >> 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?
> 
> you're right - Velveeta probably was chosen as name for
> the
> cheese-food for its velvety sound.
> That never occurred to me before.  But that links him
> with the velvet
> paintings, an icon of the streets.
> 
> I keep picturing Huggy Bear
>  http://www.style-b-cinema.com/sitebuilder/images/Antonio_Fargas_Huggy_Bear-217x273.jpg
> 
> >>. 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?
> >>
> 
> pretty great, in its own way
> 
> >> 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".
> 
> he's building that network, slowly, slowly...
>