Yup Toy

[Raphael Saltwood]

For some reason this passage reminds me of a Marlon Brando interview I read somewhere which took place in a motel, and the interviewer mentioned that after the interview, the star sauntered past one or more young women standing near the ice machine, and she or they followed him to his room.

Ruperta’s habitual dismissiveness means she ignores Yup Toy, but for Reef - less idealistic than John Lewis - she might represent “good trouble”

‘S why he apologizes to Ruperta when she did notice his behavior...iirc on the previous page or so: “Dear Mrs Chirpingdon-Groin etc etc” laying it on with a trowel to keep his meal ticket



---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
Cc: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: AtD translation: and many began to edge away, anticipating trouble up the tracks
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:30:13 +0200

I think yes, Mike: expecting trouble from the girl whose mind is an open
book for them, and "up the tracks" meaning no more than "ahead".


> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:20 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the reply, Arthur. It just seems to me totally out of place
> in
> >> the given context, and I'm still puzzled why it's even there. Are people
> >> expecting Yup Toy to cause trouble, or is it something else entirely?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:05 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > "Up the tracks" refers to railway tracks, most often, but could in an
> >> > urban situation mean subway tracks. As to "trouble", that's purposely
> >> > ambiguous. In a Hollywood Western, it might mean Commanches about to
> >> attack
> >> > the train, or a gang of train-robbers a la Jesse James. In more modern
> >> > times, it could mean that the tracks have been blocked with logs by a
> >> First
> >> > Nations tribe demonstrating against some corporate  takeover of their
> >> > lands. And again in an urban context, it could ne  a body left on the
> >> > tracks to be severed by the wheels.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:27 PM Mike Jing <
> >> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> P367.33-38   Yup Toy herself, waiting by a huge ice machine among a
> >> row of
> >> >> Oriental ice-girls in abbreviated sequined getups, her painted face a
> >> >> porcelain mask in the naphtha-light streaming from somewhere beneath,
> >> >> gazed, sucking at a scarlet fingernail, failing to look inscrutable
> to
> >> any
> >> >> but the habitually dismissive, such as Ruperta. To others more
> >> >> appreciative
> >> >> of her virtues, her mind was an open book, and many began to edge
> away,
> >> >> anticipating trouble up the tracks.
> >> >>
> >> >> What is this last part of the sentence about? What kind of trouble is
> >> >> being
> >> >> expected? And what is "up the tracks" exactly?
> >> >> --

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