BE: Chapter 12 (after one premature post).

[Mark Kohut]

I trust Maxine's judgments. As presented by Pynchon, regarding everything
she is investigating or learning about, she is right.
At the moment to the 'everything is still mysterious' about so much of
this.....

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 9:25 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> The question of whether she is being played is important to this scene,
> but also vague as to what Maxine means. I wonder what others think it
> means?  I guess I thought she meant Tallis is not the childish manpleasing
> ditz she seems, that this is an act.  On the other hand I don’t think
> Tallis does know the scope of what is going on, only that her husband can’t
> be trusted and is being secretive with a lot of money, and that her dumb
> act is working so far to keep her from trouble.
>
> > On Jan 5, 2022, at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The money is supposed to be earmarked for infrastructure"....
> >> "unless he---Gabriel---is up to his eyeballs himself, of course".....
> >> Which seems to be a new thought to Tallis.....
> >> *Nothing in this fundamental moment is what it seems. [my italics]...*
> >> Maxine thinks---figures out?---she is being played.
> >
> > Marvin the messenger learns, mysteriously, of Horst's desire" ["This is
> > desire".]....
> > for that defunct ice cream and brings it unasked. Horst sez, "it's like
> > Chinese medicine.
> > Yang deficiency. Yin. One of them".....hilarious and does the Chinese
> > allusion remind
> > anyone else of the Golden Fang and it's mysterious cargo in Inherent
> Vice?
> >
> > And then there is, over the top too much, this on the Easternization of
> the
> > West.
> >
> >
> > "Moving far beyond popular trends, Campbell assembles a powerful range of
> > evidence to show how "Easternization" has been building throughout the
> last
> > century, especially since the 1960s. Campbell demonstrates how it was
> > largely in the 1960s that new interpretations in theology, political
> > thought, and science were widely adopted by a new generation of young
> > "culture carriers." This highly original and wide-ranging book advances a
> > thesis that will be of interest to scholars in many disciplines in the
> > humanities and social sciences"...
> > McLuhan described this trend back in the '60s:
> > "“The East goes outer with our old hardware as fast as we go on the inner
> > cosmic trip of oriental fantasy with our new electric circuits and
> > circuses. The West has ‘discovered’ the I Ching and a concern with the
> > processes of hidden environments”. (McLuhan, Culture is Our Business,
> 1970,
> > p. 2)
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