Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Monte Davis]

Yes -- spy stories, like crime stories, are highly projective & work out
lots of half-hidden issues, psychological as well as ideological. I get
most interested (per Conrad, Chandler, Greene, Ross Macdonald, John Le
Carre) when the authors know that's what they're doing, and explore as well
as exploit.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Part of the deal for me is that we take SPIES too seriously, like Cops and
> Detectives. Pynchon is questioning that and it is really obvious that    he
> has a point because a lot of them are wacked out turds shat from the
> asshole of government paranoia.
> > On Mar 28, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >      And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he
> doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet
> unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended),
> littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma".
> Everything from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of
> tobacco and erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele
> strings, all seem to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...
> >      Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of
> Pirate Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet
> told, though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old
> college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems
> to beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with
> Slothrop at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this
> acronym..), and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....
> >    Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the
> locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for
> ACHTUNG. What does it all mean?
> >    And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?
> >
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