V-Help me I don't know what he's talking about

[Tim Ware]

Hey Ron:

Tagliacozzi was an Italian surgeon who developed a technique for repairing
injured noes by transplanting from the arm.

The answers to a lot of these questions can be found in the web-guide to
V.:

www.hyperarts.com/v/v-novel

TW

On Sun, 23 Jun 1996 LOT64 at aol.com wrote:

> Dear Pynchonphiles,  (sounds vaguely obscene huh?)
> 
> In reference to Schoenmaker being comparing his art  to that of Tagliacozzi,
> I just realized I have no idea who Tagliacozzi is.  Can anyone enlighten me?
>  I found no reference to him in my Groliers and it's Sunday, the library is
> closed.
> 
> 
> Also I love the second paragraph of chapter 4:
> 
> "Captured in the score's black symbols, given life by vibrating air columns
> and strings,having taken passage through transducers, coils, capacitors, and
> tubes to a shuddering paper cone, the eternal drama of love and death
> continued to unfold entirely disconnected from this evening and place."
> 
> A great description of the "Romeo and Juliet Overture" being played over a
> transistor radio. A-and a foreshadowing of the technique of going from
> extreme close-up to wide shot in the blink of an eye that we see in GR.
>  Especially the passage about Katje's ancestor firing his weapon at the dodo
> bird.
> 
> Ron Churgin
>