IVIV (8): Scott Oof

[János Székely]

Maybe echoing G. Alonso Oeuf from R. Farina's Been Down So Long?

János

2009/9/29 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>   "There were footfalls up the back steps and Scott Oof came in by
> way of the kitchen." (IV, Ch. 8, p. 115)
>
>
> Scott Oof
>
> "musician Scott Oof"
>
> Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character,
> is in Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice which takes place about 10 or
> 15 years before the events in Inherent Vice. Scott is the protagonist
> Doc Sportello's cousin.
>
> http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_23
>
>   Outside of this stylistic difference, Pynchon’s latest follows in
> the footsteps of The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland, literally and
> figuratively. In Lot 49, Oedipa Maas’ complicated route to discovering
> why she became Inverarity’s executrix occurs slightly before Prairie
> Wheeler’s instigating mother shoots some controversial films that send
> her family underground in Vineland, which in turn occurs before Doc
> Sportello’s investigation of the Mickey Wolfmann disappearance and the
> mystery of the Golden Fang ship. These are not exactly connections but
> are too close to be disconnected, and Pynchon hints at further hidden
> continuities. It is the side characters who most strongly link these
> narratives: Oedipa’s former husband-turned-“zombie”-turned-music
> mogul, Wendall “Mucho” Maas, is friends and colleagues with musician
> Scott Oof, Doc’s cousin and a friend of Prairie’s father Zoyd, who is
> famous for his transfenestration acts.
>
> http://www.criticalflame.org/fiction/0909_ruggiero.htm
>
> Why inspired?  And no Seaman Bodine sightings?  Help!  Thanks!
>
>
> "up on Sepulveda at the Skyhook Lounge"
>
> Sepúlveda is a name of families of Spanish descent. Sepúlveda, Segovia
> is the name of a village in Spain.
>
> The Sepúlveda family was prominent in the early days of Los Angeles,
> California and Orange County
>
> [...]
>
> and many features of the Southern California area are named for the family:
>
>    * Sepulveda, now called North Hills, a neighborhood within Los Angeles.
>    * Sepulveda Boulevard, a street in Los Angeles listed in the
> Guinness Book of Records as the longest municipal street in the world,
> stretching from the north end of the San Fernando Valley to the south
> end of San Pedro, California, a distance of about 43 miles.
>    * Sepulveda Pass, an important pass over the Santa Monica
> Mountains connecting the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley.
>    * Sepulveda Dam, a flood control dam in the San Fernando Valley
> which regulates the Sepulveda Basin.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sep%C3%BAlveda
>
> Which here?  See ...
>
> The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles
>
> http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/pl_print_1708
>
> Blvd., I'm assuming, but ... "Skyhook Lounge" a clue?  Help!  Thanks!
>
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