Blood & Vato

[Brian D. McCary]

> From owner-pynchon-l at sfu.ca Thu Feb 22 13:40 CST 1996
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:07:57 -0500 (EST)
> X-Sender: davemarc at panix.com
		
> Re Blood & Vato:  As I recall, "blood" and "vato" are kind of like "bro."
> So someone named Blood can call someone named Vato Blood meaning Blood to
> mean Bro, and someone named Vato can call someone named Blood Vato meaning
> Vato to mean Bro.  Of course, the use of the upper case may indicate that a
> couple of typos took place.
> 
> davemarc

Of course, the possibility also exists that this is a variation of 
Stencil's third person self referance.  In Stencil's case, he refers
to himself as someone else; in the case of Blood and Vato, they refer
to someone else as themself....  Not that I think this is a terribly 
useful observation.  It's been awhile since I read Vineland.

Brian McCary