Re: IVIV: Chapter five—Welcome Relief

[Rich Clavey]

Thanks robin,
I missed the fact that Doc never actually refused the drink....makes sense the way you 'splain it...
r.

--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IVIV: Chapter five—Welcome Relief
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 12:39 PM
> On Sep 12, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Rich
> Clavey wrote:
> 
> > Something that confused me about this section...Sloane
> offers tequila in the form of margueritas...they arrive via
> Luz on page 61, Sloane pours Riggs a drink and offers Doc
> one...which he refuses...saying he's got to be back at the
> office... Then at the top of page 63 he thinks he may be
> hallucinating from the tequila. What's going on here? Did he
> have a drink or not?
> > rich
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> >> Subject: IVIV: Chapter five—Welcome Relief
> >> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 11:59 AM
> >>     "Thank you, Mrs.
> >> Wolfmann, tequila's just fine-and what a
> >>     welcome relief not to be
> offered any
> >> 'pot'! I'll never understand
> >>     what these hippies see in
> the stuff! Do
> >> you mind if I smoke a
> >>     normal cigarette, by the
> way?"
> 
> Reasonable question:
> 
>     Sloane poured Riggs a drink and angled
> the pitcher inquiringly in
>     Doc's direction.
> 
>     "Thanks, got to be back in the office.
> Maybe you can tell us where
>     to send this refund, and what form you'd
> like it in?"
> 
> It never actually states that Doc did or did not take a
> drink.
> 
>     Who knows what lurid acts might have
> followed had Luz not
>     reappeared and flashed him, unless he
> was hallucinating from
>     tequila, a warning look.
> 
> Of course, Doc thinking he might be hallucinating or having
> a flashback—it's like Philip Marlowe's crumbling powers of
> observation due to too much time in all of those Bay City
> "clinics" by the time Terry Lennox shows up on his doorstep.
> Doc may not be a burn-out [yet], but Doc's grip on reality
> requires fairly constant monitoring.