IVIV20: They both knew, 356-359

[Mark Kohut]

Maybe, it used to exist, then it became The Golden Fang and Doc was still projecting it....but Sauncho, fact-monger, DOES have a piece...(of what it used to carry and now is?)

--- On Sun, 1/24/10, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV20: They both knew, 356-359
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 4:36 AM
> I think we should consider that the
> Preserved doesn't exist outside of Doc's
> construction of it (ie "during the acid trip ..." etc,
> 356). Yes, there is
> the archeological account, courtesy of Sauncho, that speaks
> of beginnings
> and emergence on 90-93; but what we have subsequently is
> Doc insisting that
> he sees the Preserved, denying the makeover (reversing the
> process with
> Lew/Kareem). It is a going back. On 340: "... it's real
> name".
> 
> The dream on 340-341 ends thus: "Doc wanted to believe that
> Coy, Hope and
> Amethyst were somehow on board ..." etc. And then Doc and
> Sauncho "bicker
> about it" (341). Sauncho the lawyer has a thing about
> facts.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kohut [mailto:markekohut at yahoo.com]
> 
> Sent: 20 January 2010 00:16
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org;
> Paul Nightingale
> Subject: Re: IVIV20: They both knew, 356-359
> 
> Or For Interpretation (my preference):
> 
> Let's take "The Preserved". What is Pynchon intending is
> being preserved;
> should have been preserved?
> 
> Look at the dream just a few pages back. Remember dreams,
> ala, Jung, usually
> contain truths in TRP's work it is safe to say?
> 
> 
>