baseball

[John Roca]

At 01:06 PM 8/30/95 +0300, zhaberer at glasnet.ru wrote:
>> Date:          Wed, 30 Aug 1995 00:57:58 -0700
>> To:            pynchon-l at sfu.ca
>> From:          tribe at primenet.com (John Roca)
>> Subject:       baseball
>
>> In GR, Pynchon notes that baseball is "webbed with strands of the sinister"
>> or something to that effect.  Any ideas on what that phrase means?  Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>
>That's curious-- could you supply the page reference?  There's 
>plenty sinister in baseball, as in America, and I'm sure TP has 
>got some linkage going on between the two.
>
>Thanks,
>--Zack
>
>
>--Zack 
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>Sorry...the actual reference reads differently than my fevered late-nite
memory.  At page 508 it says: "In fact, no two people have been so
il-equipped to approach a Holy Center since the days of Tchitcherine and
Dzaqyp Qulan, hauling ass over the steppe, into the North, to find their
Kirghiz Light.  That'ws about ten years' gap.  Giving this pastime about the
same vulnerability to record-breakers as baseball, a sport also
well-spidered with white suggestions of the sinister."

It is the reference to "a sport...well-spidered with white suggestions opf
the sinister" that I really do not understand.  My apology for taking the
risk of quoting from memory.