Yeah, well MY Dad sez...

[Eston Martz]

Greetings, all.

I lurk here constantly but rarely post, mainly for fear I'd be out of my
league.  Hell, I just _enjoy_ Pynchon; I don't study him.  Nonetheless, I
was talking to my fellow failed English scholar father, who imparted to me
a theory I'd never heard before, even here...I told him I'd bring it up
with you good people and let the chips fall where they want to.  Here
goes...he sez when he was doing time in academic institutions in the
late-60s/early-70s, a favored theory about _V._ maintained that the title
referred to Durrell's _Alexandria Quartet_, i.e. it was intended as sort of
a fifth book, or reaction to the quartet, or what have you.

I'll be honest:  I've never heard this from anyone else, and I don't see
it.  Does anyone else?

Yours,
Eston
ecm3 at psu.edu