V. Reading

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Eric Weinstein wonders:
"Or has the project fizzled out? I wouldn't like to think it
had just fizzled out. I was enjoying reading the novel
again and looking forward to comments.
 
     Moreover, after speaking to a few interested parties,
I had dare to wonder about a day-conference on the subject
of  V.
 
  If I seem a bit uninformed as to what's going on, forgive me.
I was away and off the list for ten days about two weeks ago."



I don't know myself--but here's a bit of chum for the school to chew on:

p. 1: "East Main was on him."
	The opening of V. sets  up the beginning of the early Pynchon dichotomy--
the hothouse and the street, one a figure of self-enclosed narcissitic 
containment that ultimately leads to stasis and entropy and the other a figure
of anarchic openness that also eventually dissipates to entropy.

Profane is the host of the latter, Stencil of the former, the two echoing
the roles of Meatball Mulligan and Callisto, respectively, in 
"Entropy."


Next?


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)