Golden Fang

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> The Tristero is the Golden Fang reversed, as if the Tristero/Golden  
>> Fang is
>> a Tarot card. The Golden Fang represents the "haves" as the Trystero
>> represents the "have-nots."
>
> The Tristero seems more specifically, at least @ the outset, the
> "disinherited."  Former haves ...

So it's really the "Golden Fang" card reversed.

> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0907&msg=136807
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65233
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0311&msg=87452
>
> ... (y'all see now by the way why I tend to enter lengthy excerpts
> from various sources into the record here?)  ...

Noted.

> However, by novella's end (?) ...

	From Charles Hollander, "Pynchon's Inferno," Cornell
	Alumni News (Nov. 1978): 24-30 ...

	 "In his apparent schema, paranoia should be preceded by 	
	feelings of disinheritance. Actually Pynchon does feel
	somewhat disinherited. Pynchon's family is a clan of bluebloods
	who were misguided enough to align themselves with the
	wrong side during not one, but two American Revolutions, one
	in the eighteenth century and one in the twentieth century, and
	who have suffered social and economic reversals as a
	consequence."

http://www.itap.de/homes/otto/pynchon/inferno.htm

	. . . her original name was Preserved, after her miraculous
	escape in 1917 from a tremendous nitroglycerin explosion in
	Halifax Harbor which blew away most everything else in it,
	shipping and souls. Preserved was a Canadian fishing
	schooner, which later during the 1920s and '30s also picked up
	a reputation as a racer, competing regularly with others in her
	class, including, at least twice, the legendary Bluenose.
	IV 92

he Bluenose is famous enough for a wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluenose

The Bluenose has a postage stamp:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_Canada_1929_50c_Bluenose.jpg

And a coin:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sSDdSgH8A78/SV4iS3pLsKI/AAAAAAAAC7U/6W99hAkMj3s/s400/Canadian_Dime.jpg

Info on Blueblood George M. Pynchon's m-class racing yacht the ISTALENA:

	Adam,
	Depending on where you got your information I believe it may
	have been through me. I did some research 2 years ago with
	help from mr.maynard of wooden boat, don street a well known
	classic afficianado who was my main link to tracing Istalena to a
	point where she fell off the face of the earth in venezuela. Our
	theory ended up being if she was gone, a fire would be the only
	thing that could have destroyed all evidance of her existance. i
	am a classic yacht captain in the med, and my search started as
	i wanted to find her and restore her to race in the vibrant big
	boat fleet we have here. alas without an owner and/or backer
	willing to fund a trip to venezuela it self I've had to put it to one
	side until such time as I can find the right candidate with funds
	and ethusiasm to either find her, or if she is indeed lost to time,
	build a replica of her. The schooners Eleonora (westward) and
	elena and indeed atlantic have all come back as faithful
	replicas.I know of two other M class which could be restored,
	one in europe and one in america. but Istalena was
	undoubtedly the prettiest and fastest.

http://tinyurl.com/yae5dd8