IVIV: The Feds II

[Mark Kohut]

John tells us:
The file is left with a bunch of others on a credenza. Interesting
wiki fact: "Originally in Italian the name meant "belief". This was
because in the 16th century the act of "credenza" was the tasting of
food and drinks by a servant for a lord or for another important
person (like popes and cardinals). By tasting it they made sure the
food was not poisoned. The name passed then to the room where the act
took place, then to the furniture"

Fascinating......"the room knew"...C of L49

--- On Tue, 9/15/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Subject: IVIV: The Feds II
> To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 1:06 AM
> Doc is interrogated beneath framed
> pictures of Nixon and Hoover. The
> coffee is cheap. The feds seem to have been newly arrived
> from
> Washington D.C. - Washington is alluded to frequently
> throughout IV,
> never nicely. One of the biggest villains boasts that he
> was married
> in St Johns' Episcopal, the Presidents' Church, just across
> from the
> White House.
> 
> Doc's seen these types before: they either remain removed
> and immune
> to California charms and head back east, "or else with
> blinding speed
> found themselves barefoot and stoned, putting their stick
> in the woody
> and following the surf off wherever it might roll. There
> seemed no
> middle range of choices."
> 
> Excluded middles, etc...
> 
> "putting their stick in the woody": stick = surfboard,
> woody = the old
> wood-panelled Plymouth station wagon
> 
> (thanks wiktionary glossary of surfing!
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_surfing_terms)
> 
> "It was hard for Doc not to imagine these two as surf Nazis
> doomed to
> repeat a film loop of some violent but entertaining
> beack-movie
> wipeout"
> 
> Surf Nazis - surfers overly-protective of their patch,
> sometimes to
> the point of violence.
> 
> -----
> 
> Doc is still playing amiable, acting interested "Ronald
> Reagan style"
> (cos that'd please the feds) and surprised that there is a
> federal
> file on him.
> 
> The file is left with a bunch of others on a credenza.
> Interesting
> wiki fact: "Originally in Italian the name meant "belief".
> This was
> because in the 16th century the act of "credenza" was the
> tasting of
> food and drinks by a servant for a lord or for another
> important
> person (like popes and cardinals). By tasting it they made
> sure the
> food was not poisoned. The name passed then to the room
> where the act
> took place, then to the furniture"
>