IVIV p. 36 sometimes a creeping fig is a nice house plant

[Mark Kohut]

Like it.....online it says creeping figs are easy enough to maintain with
a little cutting back, etc.....which, growing outside and given Zoyd's Zoydness, he did not do in Vineland

--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV p. 36 sometimes a creeping fig is a nice house plant
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 2:14 AM
> Mark Kohut wrote:
> > I like TRPs simple beautiful sketch of a happy
> domestic residential street, lot and kitchen in the second
> half of the top paragraph.
> >
> > I think the wiki post about the invasiveness of a
> 'creeping fig', as it may be in Vineland, is out of context
> for this scene, therefore is just
> > an internal Kute Korrespondence.
> >
> > C,mon, someone argue with me.
> >
> 
> "In the kitchen hung a creeping fig in a plastic pot"
> 
> aha! the inherent vice of the fig, its tendency to creep,
> is restrained by
> the pot (just as the tendencies of the protagonist to
> perhaps be a creep,
> are restrained and retrained by pot?) - its position in the
> kitchen
> subjects it to ad libitum trimming and training and
> Foucaultian observation
>