CoL49 group reading ch6 part 1

[Mark Kohut]

Volkswagon was talked of---see the name---as the People's Car. She hunts
for it in America now.
Hunting to see if postwar America is rid of bad shit (like Nazis) as
postear Germany was.
I have always, after my first reading of Lot 49, seen the volkswagen as the
car Mucho finds all the
human pathos in, in his sad reflections in that scene...

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 2:15 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There was a game called “punch-buggy” I heard of second hand, in which the
> older sibling would spot a VW and say “punch-buggy” & punch the younger
> sibling. Seemed kind of mean.
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> > "This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. She
> > drove savagely along the freeway, hunting for Volkswagens."
> >
> > This quote, after Oedipa leaves Winthrop Tremaine's government surplus
> and
> > racist memorabilia store, responds to her calling herself a chicken for
> not
> > hitting Tremaine over the head with a blunt object. However, the first
> two
> > sentences speak to what America represents as a "free" nation, that we
> swim
> > among vile attitudes that we allow to exist because we are "free" to
> think
> > as we please. Their hatred will unfurl, bringing to the light of day what
> > would otherwise remain in the festering darkness. To accept this, she
> hunts
> > Volkswagens in order to relieve her distaste for this reality.
> >
> > Three short sentences that capture so much.
> >
> > In solidarity,
> > James
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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