silly observations

Tim Ware timware at crl.com
Thu Jul 20 14:47:45 CDT 1995


Actually, Paul, I've wondered a bit about that Profane/Owlglass in the 
employment agency thing myself.  I put it on the back burner to check 
into it more deeply and there it sits.  But now I've committed myself.

I'll check it out.

Any other ideas out there?

TW

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ timware at crl.com
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On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, jayne wrote:

> 
> >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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