Mucho!

One thing that I appreciated in the first couple chapters of the book was the description of Oedipa’s husband, “Mucho.” He seems OCD and almost troubled. The description given about his old job at the used car lot is interesting. Pynchon speaks of what emotions and thoughts the random things left in old cars provokes in Mucho. He is unable to let go of the memories of his past and therefore not able to enjoy the present. Panco “could still never accept the way each owner, each shadow, filled in only to exchange a dented, malfunctioning version of himself for another, just as futureless, automotive projection of somebody else’s life. As if it were the most natural thing. To Mucho it was horrible. Endless, convoluted incest.”