Rent

[Chase Carnot]

Rent as a form of control. People like Crocker Fenway, The Old Money.
Mickey Wolfmann paying Shasta's rent but Shasta having to be his pet.
Mickey feeling bad about all of it, the political (capitalism) and the
personal (pimping Shasta). "Arrepentimiento," he tries to say. The Old
Money, The Feds, They don't like that. I'll report back with more later.
The RENT' at the center of 'INHERENT VICE' is obviously typographic fun and
games. But Pynchon's fun and games always reveal something... even if maybe
it's just the reader's paranoia... Who me?

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Real estate generally is pretty big in Inherent Vice and Bleeding
> Edge, but maybe that's just a reflection of the times, or P's later
> home-owning ways? In IV the supposedly countercultural free-livin'
> idealists are still pinned within a system that ultimately owns them
> (you gotta pay the rent at the end of the day) and in BE this extends
> to the internet, which is an anarchic frontier at first but later
> becomes a heavily surveilled shopping mall.
> Can the relationship between renters and landlords be extrapolated
> into a broader existential dynamic? It's worth a thought.
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Chase Carnot <chase.carnot at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "[...] Crocker Fenway chuckled without mirth. ‘A bit late for that, Mr.
> > Sportello. People like you lose all claim to respect the first time they
> pay
> > anybody rent.’"
> >
> > When I saw PT Anderson's IV, this line jumped at me for the first time.
> In
> > the novel, it must have just washed over me. Anyway, I've been thinking
> > about diving back into the novel sometime soon with an eye toward rent
> as a
> > central theme. I felt vindicated when a reading app I use cropped the IV
> > 'Last Supper' poster... it left the center...
> >
> > https://goo.gl/photos/zaJops8hNHUrju2u6
>
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