Pynchon, The Mocking Preacher (Chp 4,5,6)

After advancing in the lines of ink and paper, the mockery and jeering in Pynchon's voice, ideas and names is more and more highlighting than any of the surrounding subjects and themes in the adjacent text. The first thing that is noticed is the rock band named the "Volkswagens". This is making an allusion towards the heat of the moment in the sixties, the famous "Beatles", since a Beetle is a car made by Volkswagen. The law firm that Metzger works at. Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitscheck, McMingus. Obviously this is mocking the law firms that have three or four names and are very prestigious and expensive, often including foreign names. All of these last names are invented and Warpe comes from Warp which ironically means to distort or misshape and being a lawyers name is pretty self explanatory.

"It might be something sexual but she somehow doubted it" (38). This is one of my favorites, since after seeing the sign in the bathroom wall among "other obscenities", she doesn't consider an advertisement something sexual, either the symbol. The advertisement is obviously sexual, and has some illegal or incorrect connotation since you could only answer through W.A.S.T.E.

Names and places take over the irony and give the novel more meaning to what Pynchon wants to show.