Feste, a day later...

[jody2.718]

Somewhere in Bleeding Edge, me thinks, the narrator mentions "Twelfth Night."  And, this being in the aftermath of Twelth-tide past, the night before Epiphany- well, we'll see what has come slouching into the Light of Day.  In the Shakespearean play, Feste is noteworthy and problematic:  He's not funny. He gets paid for his work. He's getting on in life. He likes words and knows how to use them, and, he's not above revenge...He's nobody's fool.

"Someday we'll be friends. I'm sure." Felix says to Maxine, when they are parting in Port Authority, Manhattan, after bumping into each other- He on his way to sun, sea and "babes in bikinis," and she, bowling with Horst and the boys at one of the few un-yuppyfied bowling alleys left in the city. The last time Pynchon brought us to a bowling alley was with Hector and Zoyd at the Vineland Lanes, where the check landed in the mayo. Neither here nor there, but The Québécois bothers me in a way that Hector never did. He may or may not have knifed Lester in the back. He plays both sides and he seems to know alot about what Maxine (and the reader through her) has been trying to find out. He's a strange character whose role I'm uncertain of. What is Pynchon trying to say with Felix? Something important? or maybe just, "What You Will" ?

jody

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