Re: La Jarretière

[Mark Kohut]

Rereading the AtD appearance after having just reread V. 
the death in V. still seems real and the reappeance is some
insightful spin on turning horror into a joke.....farce.....in history

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, March 30, 2011 2:46:36 AM
Subject: Re: La Jarretière

Matthew wrote:
> Nice one Tore. Now the question is: What are we to make of that?


That he planned it all the time

textual evidence I posted:

a) http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1102&msg=154562&sort=date

relevant passage:
page 459
- nasty business with the sharpened pole
- however, we now know it "was all theater"

- "Damn the German" oh ok, I guess he is the maker of the automatons...

page 460
- so like, V. is watching this happen?
- - that's messed up
--- (or is she in on it?)(nah)
--  coroners are presumably not immune to bribery in 1913
-- raspberry jam
-- it's probably something V. cooked up with a lover other than V.
-- she wouldn't have told Porcepic 'cos he was buds with V., right?
- the sweet cheat gone



b) http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1102&msg=154563&sort=date
I've got a theory:
remember how old Satin did NOT go to the Black Mass, but sat there at
the table shuffling glasses with a murderous look on his face?
so - maybe he's a good guy.
and plus, he's like the choreographer, who better to work the
mechanics of it all, to help Melanie stage a fake suicide and get away
from V.?
Yup, that's my theory, and I'm stickin' with it.