IV - chapter 19 page 348 - 350

[Mark Kohut]

Great stuff herein....

Coy has a kind of 'ordinary resurrection' so to use the Christian tradition.  He comes back from the dead secularly, so to speak.

Facilely, one might say he ascends into consumer culture??...He gets a CREDIT CARD!.....



--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: IV - chapter 19 page 348 - 350
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 9:22 AM
> Page 348
> Doc becomes ironic or sarcastic or something about the rich
> whereupon Fenway checks his "Patek Philippe moonphase".
> http://www.demesy.com/p/52691.html
> $56,500
> 
> From Pynchon Wiki:
> "An expensive watch, obviously: characteristics include a
> high value and a very complex and precise mechanism. Crocker
> Fenway's watch would, today, fetch a significant price: a
> 1968 watch (with some unusual characteristics) went for over
> $183,000 at a Christie's auction in November 2008. Older,
> and particularly rare, models have sold for over a million
> dollars. "
> 
> *
> Fenway tells Coy the drop will be at the in the parking lot
> at the May Company shopping mall...tomorrow evening.
> 
> Hawthorne and Artesia - this is today's South Bay Galleria
> in Redondo Beach.  the site of the May Company store
> back in 1970 (to 1985)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bay_Galleria
> 
> *
> From Pynchon Wiki:
> This conversation happens the evening of Wednesday May 6,
> 1970.
> Doc brought Denis along
> Evening, Thursday May 7, 1970. May 7 is the Feast of the
> Ascension in 1970. Jesus Christ, having been resurrected,
> returns bodily to heaven on this day.
> 
> Now isn't the date of the Feast of the Ascension used in
> Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day?  It's the end of
> Christ's time on earth - when he "ascends into
> heaven."    Is this meaningful in the context of
> IV?   Does it mark the end of something, some
> era, some job,  or are they just "getting
> high?"   Could it be an accident (and not
> meaningful) in IV?  I mean,  the Feast of the
> Ascension is going to happen every year.
> 
> ^^^^^
> Doc and Denis go to the mall (but it's not a mall yet - see
> above) to await the drop.  They smoke a
> joint.   Southern california shopping malls
> of 1970
> 
> **********
> Page 349
> Doc gives Denis some details about the transaction and how
> it's being done for the safety of some people he cares
> about.   They discuss trusting bad people as
> well as good people because "good people get bought and sold
> every day."  (Think Coy and even Doc himself.) 
> "Might as well trust somebody evil once in awhile, it makes
> no more or less sense."
> 
> *
> The "Golden Fang operatives" show up "in a 1953 Buick
> Estate Wagon, the last woodie that ever rolled out of
> Detroit."
> 
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/1953_Buick_Super_Estate_Wagon.jpg
> 
> Although dressed like a "wholesome California family" 
> (in a 17 year old woodie? - a rather incongruous picture,
> eh?) - but they're not quite what they seem - or are
> they?     California blonde mom hands
> Doc a small rectangular piece of plastic.
> 
> **************
> Page 350
> It's  a credit card made out to Coy Harlingen. 
> Apparently Fenway is helping Coy keep his mouth
> shut.   Doc is given a message for Coy.
> " 'Well done.  Welcome back to the main herd. 
> Safe journeys.'  That's 
> 'journeys,"   plural. ' "
> 
> Rather cryptic, imo.  Who is/was Coy working
> for?  Who has him now?
> 
> *
> As they leave the parking lot Doc notices Bigfoot's car
> trailing the operatives, still trailing the dope. 
> Bigfoot continues to hunt for Adrian, the "employer" of his
> partner's killer,  and there are still lots of
> questions to be answered.
> 
> *******
> 
> 
> 
>