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[János Székely]

Beware of the Golden Fang!!!" . . . plus hibiscus blossoms that merely
snorting them would send you off into nasal acid trips . . . Hula
girls with big tits.

cf.

Slothrop's Hawaiian shirt complete with hibiscus blossoms as a token
of his identity against the workings of The White Visitation (of which
the Golden Fang may be a caricature, or just a parallel, granting
Pynchon's perennial distrust of dentists and the "psychodontist"
analogy already present in V.);

the nasal sex episode at Säure Bummer's place;

and the hula girls from Rózsavölgyi's nightmare.

János

2009/9/20 Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
> ok, so the girls leave him a note, written in hot pink toenail polish,
> and a PS: Beware of the Golden Fang!!!
>
> as he recalls the incident of Mickey's kidnapping, he realizes Jade
> was the last person he saw there,
> and, in typical tortuous syntax, and not lacking a Jim Morrison
> reference, ponders whether she might
> have something more to tell him.
>
> a) detectives often get clubbed on the head:
> a feature of almost every Rockford episode (a wisecracking 'tec I liked)
> Nick Danger ("then it hit me: what a sap she had!")
>
> b) Pynchon's already slid a humorous tentacle of truth into that
> convention, back on
> page 22 with "faster, anyway, than the staff on Medical Center can say
> 'subdural hematoma'"
>
> "So, knowing them to be longtime Club Asiatique regulars" - plus the
> fact she just
> told him so in the note - he heads out to their "beachfront mansion"
>
> Motella's closet full of Hawaiian shirts is a nice counterpoint to
> Mickey's closet full of ties...
> one could point out that while Mickey's custom made ties were an
> artifact of his promiscuity,
> Lourdes and Motella's shirts are probably also left and taken in turn
> by a steady supply of
> gentlemen callers.
>
> And in a nice touch, Motella also lends Doc a string of love beads...
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> --
> "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
> revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
> declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
> Martin Luther King
>