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'''Pia Zadora in ''The Clara Bow Story'''''<br />
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[[image:clara-bow.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Clara Bow]]'''Pia Zadora in ''The Clara Bow Story'''''<br />
The first of many fictitious movies. It's easy to tell, because Pynchon always provides a bracketed date [1980] when he references a real movie, but not a fictitious one.
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The first of many fictitious movies. It's easy to tell, because Pynchon always provides a bracketed date [1980] when he references a real movie, but not a fictitious one. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Zadora Pia Zadora], whose film career (eg. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'']) was going nowhere until she married Israeli multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis in 1977, had some success in film and music, but no longer. Not sure of the connection with the famous silent-film actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bow Clara Bow].
  
 
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'''"a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store."'''<br />
This combination of junk food and health food defines the North Coast redneck hippie perfectly. But Pynchon's insistent hammering on Zoyd's junk-food habit may go a little deeper -- like autobiography, maybe?
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This combination of junk food and health food defines the North Coast redneck hippie perfectly. But Pynchon's insistent hammering on Zoyd's junk-food habit may go a little deeper &#151; like autobiography, maybe?
  
 
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Revision as of 23:41, 23 February 2008

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Page 14

"Zoy-oyd..."
Prairie is a wonderfully drawn 14-year-old teenager.

Clara Bow
Pia Zadora in The Clara Bow Story

The first of many fictitious movies. It's easy to tell, because Pynchon always provides a bracketed date [1980] when he references a real movie, but not a fictitious one. Pia Zadora, whose film career (eg. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians) was going nowhere until she married Israeli multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis in 1977, had some success in film and music, but no longer. Not sure of the connection with the famous silent-film actress Clara Bow.

"the Tube"
Consistently capitalized throughout the book.

"a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store."
This combination of junk food and health food defines the North Coast redneck hippie perfectly. But Pynchon's insistent hammering on Zoyd's junk-food habit may go a little deeper — like autobiography, maybe?

Page 15

"almost featured on 'Good Morning America'"
15 minutes of almost fame.

"useful distinction between...defenestrative [and transfenestrative] personality"
Cool Pynchonian satire of California Psychobabble.

Page 16

"Love is strange"
Refers to Mickey and Sylvia's song of the same name. Clearly a Pynchonian favorite; he used it as the lead for his New York Times Book Review piece on Love In the Time of Cholera.

Page 17

"Joey Chitwood-type thrill show"
Joey Chitwood, a legendary "Auto Daredevil," started touring with his death-defying troupe in the 1940s, and continued for decades.

Page 18

"the Uzi machine gun, 'badass of the desert.'"
Pynchon seems moderately hung up on rear ends in this book (and elsewhere). The phrase "badass" recurs constantly (as it did in Gravity's Rainbow too, where it achieved Naval Significance as the USS John E. Badass). In addition there's Trasero County (trasero = Spanish for "rump,") Las Nalgas (Spanish for "buttocks,") and Culito Canyon (culito = Spanish for "little ass.") There's also an echo of Da Conho, the cook in V., whose fantasy involved shooting Muslims in Israel with a .30 caliber machine gun that went "yibble, yibble, yibble." ("Da Conho's machine gun was the only one in the world that went "yibble, yibble," Pynchon pointed out.)


Chapter 1
pp. 3-13
Chapter 2
pp. 14-21
Chapter 3
pp. 22-34
Chapter 4
pp. 35-55
Chapter 5
pp. 56-67
Chapter 6
pp. 68-91
Chapter 7
pp. 92-106
Chapter 8
pp. 107-129
Chapter 9
pp. 130-191
Chapter 10
pp. 192-203
Chapter 11
pp. 204-217
Chapter 12
pp. 218-267
Chapter 13
pp. 268-293
Chapter 14
pp. 294-322
Chapter 15
pp. 323-385
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