IVIV (11) 171

[Mark Kohut]

forgive if I missed this posting of an urban dictionary defintion of Noyd:
noyd - 1 definition - A noyd is a person that annoys others for no good reason, sometimes for fun. Some cases are differant as certain people are a...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=noyd - Cached - Similar -


--- On Mon, 10/26/09, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com>
> Subject: IVIV (11) 171
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:42 AM
> Hello, I am going to overlap on
> Laura's posts, but not for a long time. Thank to all of you
> who posted remarks about my comments.
> 
> I'd like to add something about Rudy Blatnoyd: his nickname
> may stand for Rudolph, which immediately bears to mind both
> Rudolph Valentino and Rudy Giuliani. The first was a
> sex-symbol, dancer and actor in the silent-film era, the
> second was prosecutor attorney, and mayor of New York. He
> fought against drug and corruption in the southern district
> of the city in the first half of the 70's, and in 1975 he
> changed his party affiliation from democrat to republican
> and moved to Washington, "where he served as associate
> deputy attorney general and chief of staff to Deputy
> Attorney General Harold R. Tyler (1922– ) in the
> administration of President Gerald R. Ford" (I'm quoting an
> online encyclopedia: http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=210469).
> I also found something that may be totally irrelevant, but
> sounds so pynchonian that I can't help passing it to you. It
> is about a fashion brand called Valentino Rudy (name and
> first name inverted here, a hysteron proteron that is
> presented as the real name of the founder of this Italian
> company born in 1931, the year of Rudy Valentino's death).
> The brand was bought by a Japanese company during the
> 1970's, and here is what they tell about it on the website:
> « In the 1970s, after meeting President Yasuhiro Matsuda
> of Matsuda Co., Ltd. based in Kyoto, Valentino Rudy started
> to be engaged in the field of textile design and made his
> debut in the Italian fashion circle with the ties he
> designed.
> In 1972, with Producer Yasuhiro Matsuda, the designer
> announced "3V Philosophy --- Veneration, Veracity and Value"
> and established his own brand "Valentino Rudy" based on the
> concepts of "potentiality," "creativity," and "formative
> attractiveness."
> Supported entirely by Matsuda Co., Ltd., Mr. Rudy launched
> business all over the world starting from the Asian region.
> »
> http://www.valentinorudy.com/en/about/profile/
> But in my opinion, everything is connected on the web, more
> than anywhere else. This must be a mere coincidence.
> 
> - ancient American Indian belief: there was already a
> similar reference to "an ancient superstition at the beach,
> something like the surfer belief that burning your board
> will bring awesome waves, and it went like this—take a
> Zig-Zag paper and write on it your dearest wish, and then
> use it to roll a joint of the best dope you can find, and
> smoke it all up, and your wish will be granted" (35).
> Popular culture, hippie trends that lead here to some kind
> of a serious moral commitment toward Japonica.
> 
> - the Fenways live in Palos Verdes in a gated community,
> Rolling Hills. Doc meets Crocker Fenway in Lomita, a place
> down the hills, near the Peninsula, next to Torrance and
> West Carson.
> The father's first name suggests heavy dishes (crockery)
> that can be used in an oven. But it is also the name of a
> wealthy Californian family who gave Sacramento an art
> museum. Here is what we can read on the museum's website:
> « As a prominent California family, the Crockers supported
> many social and civic causes. Judge Edwin B. Crocker
> (1818-1875) practiced law and served on the State Supreme
> Court. He was the brother of Charles Crocker, one of the
> “Big Four” railroad barons, and acted as legal council
> for the Central Pacific Railroad. In 1885, his widow,
> Margaret (1822-1901), fulfilled their shared vision of
> creating a public art museum when she presented the E. B.
> Crocker Art Gallery and collection to the City of Sacramento
> and the California Museum Association, “in trust for the
> public.” »
> http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/about/history_crockers.htm
> They have a great collection. The Crockers must have had
> much political influence in California and represented "big
> money" indeed.
> And Crocker Fenway payed Doc very well.
> 
> - "runaway-daughter case" cf. Raymond Chandler's The Big
> Sleep. The runaway daughter is Carmen Sternwood, who is sent
> to a mental institution at the end of the novel.
> 
> - like in The Big Lebowski, The Big Sleep here is alluded
> to in a very ludicrous way. The mention of vomit in the
> girl's hair is very un-romantic!
> 
> - There are a couple shifters in the bottom of the page,
> maybe because Doc is now too high to control his focus on
> the scene: "once may have rescued," "apparently,"
> "perhaps."
> 
> - The vision of the American Indian warrior has been
> prepared by the allusion to that American Indian belief. Is
> Doc having a bad trip? Chryskylodon is both the place that
> Mickey Wolfmann helped finance, and that could be
> responsible for his disparition, and it seems to be linked
> to the Golden Fang, if Japonica's treatments have a
> consistence.
> 
> Clement
>