CoL49 group reading ch6 part 1

[Mark Kohut]

Why did Pynchon call this Beatles-like, Gerry & the Pacemakers-like,
British Invasion Group, The Paranoids?...

Cause all of established society was out to get them?

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 3:51 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1) The Paranoids burst into song with a lament - Metzger has stolen one of
> their “chicks”
>
>
> “Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard” scans like “John, Paul, George and Ringo”
>
> I couldn’t find an album cover with musicians & instruments arrayed
> around a diving board, but it would make a good photo imho
>
> One almost compulsively thinks, doesn’t one, of:
>
> Miles - Miles Davis, edgy like John
>
> Dean - Dean Martin, a crooner like Paul
>
> Serge - Serge Gainsbourg, attractively louche like pre-Krishna George
> (plus both names end in “rge”)
>
> But
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> Leonard - ?
>
> Or not; never mind
>
>
> I haven’t yet come up with a hummable song this could be a parody of…
>
> Has anyone?
>
> & I cannot recall any song specifically on that theme of “older men,
> younger women” although “These Boots are Made for Walkin’” touches on
> it (“what he knows you ain’t had time to learn”) & there’s a country
> song with a chorus that goes “faster horses, older whisky, younger
> women”
>
> “Serge’s Song” is a reductio ad absurdum on that theme - like The
> Paranoids are a reductio ad absurdum of the British Invasion-inspired
> bands beginning to proliferate in 1964?
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>
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> 2) Metzger breaks up with Oedipa with no notice, just a fait accompli
>
> “No word to recall that Oedipa and Metzger had ever been more than
> co-executors.
>
> “Which must mean, thought Oedipa, that that’s all we were. She should
> have felt more classically scorned, but had other things on her mind.”
>
> It was just one of those things…
>
> Sex - especially the first time - with Metzger was a landmark of
> moving away from Mucho, affection-wise. Now, any potential for
> something between her and Metzger recedes in the aftermath of her SF
> sojourn. It’s hard to say who means less to the other.
>
>
> Is it meaningful that Metzger leaves the note on the TV? As being
> someplace she’s bound to see it right away?
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