BE ch 5 noir touch

[Joseph Tracy]

 Maxine goes to check out hwgaahwgh.com <http://hwgaahwgh.com/>  . Pronounced WOW? A pirate groan? any ideas on this name?


"MAXINE APPROACHES the address from the other side of the street, and as soon as she catches sight of it, her heart, if it does not sink exactly, at least cringes more tightly into the one-person submarine necessary for cruising the sinister and labyrinthine sewers of greed that run beneath all real-estate dealings in this town.”

You know he felt prety good after writing that  classic  black humor noir style line with key Pynchon theme of real estate ponzi , a theme quite fresh when BE was published. 

"the sinister and labyrinthine sewers of greed”  yeah,