"Real Subversive Lit."?
Chris V. Blanc
cblanc at kaa.pomona.edu
Wed Feb 22 18:21:41 CST 1995
> Second, an answer/s. "Vheissu," very close to the German "Wie heisse
> du?" means "How are you called?" In idomatic German, this is "what's
> your name?" But in idiomatic English, it is "HOW are you
> called?"--something like "how do I get in touch with you?"
> OR "how can I address you?"
or, given the signal/noise interpretations of pynchon, this could be
asking: how can i address this data/what is the signal? how is it called? i
think there's a lot of truth to the invocation theory as well, which is a
similar construct in an environment as pantheistic as the environment a
humanist and data theorist like pynchon must live in.
- sven
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