IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann

[Mark Kohut]

I'll work up something soon. For me, my first reading was as yours--saw him more ambiguously...then on second w audio, less so...

I've already posted re this chapter the way Bigfoot "violates" Doc's presumption of innocence about every time he speaks. Consistent. A pre-emptive fascist, if that phrase I made up makes any sense. 

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

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Thomas Eckhardt" <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 1:10 PM
> > I think, John, I see Bigfoot
> more unambiguously than you do, though. Others?
> 
> Ok, well, lets have more on this. I read IV once, in a few
> sessions,
> over a few days. My second read was much more disjointed.
> So overall,
> I still don't have much of a satisfactory handle on
> Bigfoot. I just
> thought he was highly ambiguous. He's meant to be Doc's
> nemesis, but
> he doesn't seem to do much, er, nemesising. Unless, as
> suggested, he
> is covertly steering Doc around. Even so, he also doesn't
> seem to live
> up to our expectations of him as a fascist brute. And,
> maybe mist
> strikingly, he shaw talks perty, n'est pas? Aren't most
> dumb
> hippy-hating cops meant to be somewhat less articulate than
> ol'
> Bigfoot?
>