IVIV, Bigfoot on Doc's case

[Mark Kohut]

A...and, mirrors are there in much of the other fiction...Remember
Oedipa in the doorway of double mirrors and their infinite regress....
lots of mirrors in M & D....V. too, but I can't remember an example....

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV, Bigfoot on Doc's case
> To: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:11 AM
> > A lame joke, yes, but a lame
> joke which connects to important
> > themes in IV. An obvious answer to Doc's question
> would be "in
> > the mirror," and Doc does have a close relationship
> with mirrors.
> > Also, in his PCP trip on p. 318 he DOES watch his own
> head, as
> > he hallucinates his own double:
> >
> > "WoW," Doc replies, "you look just like you do in th'
> mirror!"
> 
> Yes, and Pynchon has always been a big fan of corny jokes,
> puns, etc.
> We know this.
>