Baseball Mandala

[R. Jeffrey Grace]

** Reply to note from Bonnie Surfus <surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu> 08/30/95  
11:07pm -0400

> What interests me is the missing talk of the Goddess.  Call me a sucker 
> for a title, but Pynchon's obvious awareness of Graves' book, coupled 
> with the endless "white faces" and other white things in GR, lead me to 
> see this baseball issue differently.  I haven't got it all worked out 
> like Steely has, but his mention of the "mound" at the center does call 
> to mind the Goddess.  Something to do with sites of worship in Old 

Oh well hell. :<  If the "mound" is in the center, then what the hell is  
homeplate???

<sigh>


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