IVIV20: They both knew, 356-359

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV20: They both knew, 356-359
> To: "Paul Nightingale" <isread at btinternet.com>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:03 AM
> and in which we learn what is under
> the beach: Graveyards of native Americans which they
> believed were portals to the spirit world. Gordita Beach is
> built on one...........
> 
> --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>
> > Subject: IVIV20: They both knew, 356-359
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:12 AM
> > Pursuing the Golden Fang, Sauncho
> > bringing Doc back to the here-&-now. The
> > "pair of greenish blobs" (356) recalls the "little
> blobs of
> > color" on 351,
> > not to mention the "paint chips" on 354, or even the
> > "cubist rose" on
> > 355-356; and then, of course, the radio "sound[s] like
> a
> > Gordita Beach bar
> > any night of the week" (356). The schooner proves
> elusive
> > and again the
> > action is quite inconsequential. Sauncho ("Well, that
> lets
> > us out") gives up
> > easily, perhaps oddly so, given his apparent
> enthusiasm for
> > the chase
> > earlier, "moving faster than Doc had ever seen him"
> (354).
> > 
> > What follows will be observed at a distance by Sauncho
> and
> > Doc; so possibly
> > their presence is now quite superfluous. Observers
> rather
> > than participants;
> > observation and reading as participation. But then,
> > fast-forward to the
> > section's closing exchange on 359: without Sauncho and
> Doc
> > as witnesses
> > "[t]here'd be only the government story".
> > 
> > And so to "St Flip of Lawndale's mythical break, also
> known
> > to old-timers as
> > Death's Doorsill" (358), a paragraph that begins by
> > confirming their shared
> > knowledge/understanding. On 357 Doc suspects the
> Golden
> > Fang is leading them
> > into a trap; a page later he thinks he sees the
> Preserved.
> > He might put it
> > down to poor visibility, but again there is the
> > recollection of an ethical
> > alternative.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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