V-2nd C4 Like They All Wanted

[Dave Monroe]

"Irish, she wanted, turned up.   Like they all wanted." (V., Ch. 4,
Pt. II, p. 106)


"Like they all wanted"

Cf. David Riesman, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney, The Lonely Crowd: A
Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven, CT; Yale UP,
1950):

"The extreme case of self-exploitation for reasons not necessarily
associated with economic or social advance is plastic surgery of the
sort which ... actually alters the person's Gestalt, so that he is no
longer visually the same person.... shows the degree of pressure put
on the physiologically and psychologically underprivileged by the
personality market of leisure and work." (Grant, Companion, p. 64)

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300088655

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Crowd

See ...

Pittas-Giroux, Justin Arthur.  "A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's V."
   Thesis (M.A.), University of South Carolina, 1995.


"retroussé nose"

Etymology

from the French retroussé, past participle of retrousser, to bundle or tie up.

Adjective

 retroussé (comparative more retroussé, superlative most retroussé)

1.Turned up, as in describing the nose.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retrouss%C3%A9

E.g., ...

http://www.extenser.com/tete/leopold/nez-retrousse.gif

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4954634


"his private thesis"

"Pynchon's own mistrust of binary extremes is reflected in
Schoenmaker's theory." (Grant, Companion, p. 64)


"correction"

"The word cybernetics stems from the Greek Κυβερνήτης (kybernētēs,
steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder — the same root as government).
In applying corrections to the trajectory or course being steered
Cybernetics can be seen as the most general approach to error and its
correction for the achievement of any goal. The term was suggested by
Norbert Wiener to describe a new science of control and information in
the animal and the machine. Wiener's early work was on noise.

"The cybernetician Gordon Pask held that the error that drives a
servomechanism can be seen as a difference between a pair of analogous
concepts in a servomechanism: the current state and the goal state).
Later he suggested error can also be seen as an innovation or a
contradiction depending on the context and perspective of interacting
(observer) participants...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error#Cybernetics


"Cultural harmony"

E.g., "the personality market of leisure and work" (see above)

>From Katrin Amian, Rethinking Postmodernism(s): Charles S. Peirce and
the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and
Jonathan Safran Foer (New York: Rodopi, 2008), Ch. 2, "Creativity and
Power: Thomas Pynchon's V.," pp. 69-112;

 "As in the case of V., the story of Schoenmaker's re-creation of
Esther's body resonates within the uneasy adjaceny of inventive
possibility and stifling control within the very process of creation.
At first, the sense of possibilty is attributed to Esther herself....
This positive take is immediately troubled, however, as her [choice]
becomes tied to the pervasive power of cultural norms ...." (p. 97)

http://books.google.com/books?id=L2Xy8dMJdMIC
http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=PMS+41