IVIV Bobwire & Jolly Rancher

[John Carvill]

> Barbwire, a nice Pynchonian item with lots of
> resonances--steel, metal, wrought iron-- within
> P's anti-industrial vision and stock of symbols.
>
> that seems just like the right metaphor for a
> pre-emptive fascist to 'collect", imho. Keep
> 'em away.

Yes, and yet it seems a somehow sympathetic detail about Bigfoot. That
bit where he gets DOc to help him put the stuff in the boot of his car
is hillarious. I don't know why, really, but it reminded me of
SLothrop keeping his map of stars up to date - 'boobishly
sonscientious'.