Re: IVIV (11) p. 163-164

[Joseph Tracy]

Great Research Clement, Ya gotta love the sounds of polynesian  
languages, pronounceable or not.

On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Clément Lévy wrote:
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> - Shasta's message sounds very melancholy but she gives Doc a clue,  
> seemingly unintentionally.

My sense is that it was deliberate, If she is in captivity and being  
watched the message would have to seem innocuous. The trip to the  
Hole in the black clouded rainstorm doesn't seem very romantic, not  
really a tender memory. Had she been to the new Fang building while  
in captivity and recognized the location? I kinda feel like Pynchon  
is using the Ouija board as an opening to the duality of a certain  
kind of a greedy use of the spirit world. It is preceded by some  
nasty desperate-stoner imagery(  anybody ready for visine as a way to  
cleanse the doors of perception?) and seems to open the door to,  
well, hell,  or at least  a local franchise.  Some of Doc's bad karma  
seems to converge here, Japonica, the dart, cocaine(a drug Pynchon  
connects to self destruction) the paranoid Blatnoyd.
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> - Ouija board. We've seen one already in Gravity's Rainbow, at  
> Snoxall's (GR, BB20thC p. 32).

Can someone translate this to the Penguin page #
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> - "his city dump memory": here again, the waste motif.
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> - "the problem about Ouija boards—" indeed! this one gives an  
> address valid (in a way that must be discussed) only months later.  
> Months? this the time-line problem. We talked about this sooner on  
> the list but I cannot find when it was.

NIce alternate take to the one I offered above with the directions  
from another time zone. Would definitely fit with other Pynchon time  
distortions, especially ATD.
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> - TV cop shows: also a motif in VL, p. 83, and elsewhere too.
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> Today has been a long day! I'll write later tomorrow (thursday)
> Clément
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