Golden Fang

[Michael Bailey]

the Golden Fang is at least suggestive of the "turning from a creature
of flesh into an assemblage of inanimate objects" seen in V., and of
the King Midas theme that in turn may have inspired some of that
theme...
whether or not a group of capitalists ever sat down in a smoke-filled
room and donned nametags with a Golden Fang logo, the social darwinist
assumptions in the accounting system adopted, more or less, by
capitalists make the GF a potent signifier in tying together diverse
elements in the rapacious conduct of war and addiction for profit...
the GF building, in the shape of a fang, is probably the closest we
get to an explicit statement for the group...oh, wait, that's
forgetting the ship itself, which sort of recaps the repurposing of
the American [ship of] State from a bellwether of freedom to,um,
whatever it became ...
--but anyway, the GF building right in the middle of LA, so big that
its feral nature isn't immediately apparent, contrasts with the
buildings of Arrepentimiento out in the desert

anyway, I think GF offers some speculative fun for those so
inclined...as does IV...

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> 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."
>
> Laura & Rich and others: I cannot see TRP spending so many words and plot points on JUST a diversion, a fun side show.  If Chandler, Hammett or MacDonald did that, we'd call them on it....not just accept it as a diversion...if Delillo, Coetze or Kafka did that, we'd fault the books.
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> Some who see The Golden Fang as a diversion do find major fault with IV.
> Cause, effect, chicken, egg??
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> As Dan Brwon and most Thomas Pynchon readers might say, The Golden Fang is not accidental to whatever IV's overarching meaning is, imho.
>
> I am liking Robin's above, but I do think there are even more clues we have yet to explore to pin done some resonances---while opening out others---as we did with Tristero...
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