Japonica Fenway

[rich]

 Fens are equated with spooky places--know I've come across
this--there is jennie greenteeth in GR

so Japonica's weird musings does sorta jibe with her "spooky ways"

cue Classic IV-a spooky little girl like you (1968)--good theme song
for her (and neat sax solo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUf4F9VXo_s

In the cool of the evening
When everything is gettin kind of groovy
I call you up
And ask you if you want to go with me and see a movie
First you say no, you've got some plans for the night
And then you stop, and say, all right
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you

You always keep me guessin’
I never seem to know what you are thinkin’
And if a fella looks at you
It's for sure your little eye will be a-winkin’
I get confused cause i don't know where i stand
And then you smile, and hold my hand
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you
Spooky

If you decide someday to stop this little game that you are playin’
I'm gonna tell you all what my heart's been a-dyin’ to be sayin’
Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin’ my dreams
So i'll propose on halloween
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you

Spooky, spooky
Spooky, oh whoa, all right
I said spooky

rich

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Japonica-  means "of Japan", or "Japanese"  In IV  another connection to the
> Asian side of the pacific rim and possibly to the US ( Crocker Fenway owns
> the police) presumed paternal ownership of Japan and our desire to control
> Japan's appetites.
>

> Japonica Fenway has serious psychological problems but is seeing a kind of
> gnostic truth that Blatnoyd can't see.  She sees that the DemiGod rules in
> this region of LA and his eyes are everywhere. Later we find out Crocker
> Fenway( the Prince of Palos Verdes) is a lot like John Huston(Noah Cross)
>  in  the great 70's noir Chinatown( directed by Roman Polanski, who ties
> into our story becauseS Tate was Manson's victim). He is murderously and
> sexually obsessed with Japonica. Freud was taken down a notch when it was
> seen that a high percentage of his psychotically troubled female clients
> were the victims of sexual abuse, and he seemed to have known this tie but
> suppressed it in favor of his more indirect psychosexual theories.
>
> By making Japonica, the relatively weak and fucked over but feisty victim of
> the Golden Fang and her own Father, a central figure in this detective
> drama, and having her turn towards a delusional  apocalypticism, Pynchon is
> exploring the mindset of the current batch of end time apocalyptics who
> dismiss the real power conspiracies in favor of a good guys vs bad guys
> Armageddon.  Part of what disables this group is their delusional sense that
> America is their Daddy, their protector, their noble forefather ordained by
> God.
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