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[Paul DiFilippo]

Folks--
Some thoughts on recent points:
1) This might be old news, but is V not most easily read as a
visual icon: ie; the female delta of venus?
2) Pynchon as pickup artist brings to mind the recent fascinating
article in the NEW YORKER on the (no longer) anonymous author
of THE STORY OF O, Pauline Reage.  Her editor, one of the few
people who knew who she really was, once sat in a restaurant
across from a woman who spent the entire meal boasting how SHE
was the mysterious Reage!
3)  Discovery time of Pluto.  A bizarre random associational
thought:  any connection to one of the most famous astronomical
enigmas in literature, Swift's mention of "two Martian satellites"
in GULLIVER years before their eventual sighting?
Wisdom Anticipates Savant's Tendentious Enunciations!

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