IVIV Bobwire & Jolly Rancher

[David Morris]

It reminds me a bit of the string collecting/smoking in V.

Of course barbed wire had big political consequences in the "taming"
of the Wild West.  I seem to remember the gauchos in GR mourning the
loss of freedom they had before the open plains were cordoned off.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:09 AM, John Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.