Golden Fang

[David Morris]

It's got to be significant that the giant fang grew out of the watery
pit that became in Doc's drugless trip the epicenter of environmental
revenge threatening to submerge LA into the Ocean.  Obviously the fang
belongs symbolically to a dragon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_(mythology)

The classical legends of Cadmus and Jason have given rise to the
phrase "to sow dragon's teeth." This is used as a metaphor to refer to
doing something that has the effect of fomenting disputes, rather akin
to the law of unintended consequences.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
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> 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."
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>> 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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> revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
> declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
> Martin Luther King
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