silly observations
jayne
prj at donuts0.bellcore.com
Thu Jul 20 11:15:00 CDT 1995
>Andrew Dinn guesses:
>> The object of everyone's quest in V. was?
>The elusive V.? The Virgin?
>> The object of everyone's quest in GR was?
>The elusive A4? The 00000 (funf punkt). - Gravity's (Arc) Angel
> So is GR a sequel to V.?
>Is `The Education..' a sequel to `Mont St Michel and Chartres'
Actually I was thinking of V and V2. Hence the joke about a sequel.
I like to think of "V." as meaning "Vanishing Point" I wish I could
claim I thought of it.
Not wanting to break tradition by checking my sources before I post,
I'll rely on memory for this "silly observation": am I the only
reader of V. who noticed that Benny Profane meets Rachael Owlglass
"for the first time" twice in the novel? Once she is said to have
met him by nearly hitting him with her MG; the other time he is
sitting in the employment office with an uh, lap problem; she is
the person he's waiting to see. Tonight I'll check the book and
doubtless find I've misremembered something.
Paul Jayne
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