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[Justin Pittas-Giroux]

RokyE at aol.com notes that V had a different working title: yes, it did.
The title was "Under the Sign of the Yo_yo"--gawd-awful, but true,
according to a blurb in Pynchon Notes a few years back.

This title is of particular interest to me, because I am working on an
essay on the ideas of David Riesman as they appear in Pynchon's early
works.  I have read every issue of Pynchon Notes (my master's thesis was on V)
and I quite distinctly remember seeing this mentioned at least twice.  The
recurrent yo-yo metaphor is central to my argument since Riesman (a former
Sperry gyroscope exec during WWII) uses a related metaphor (the gyroscope)
in his work _The Lonely Crowd_.  The argument still works without the blurb
about the working title, but it would be a nice thing to cite, I believe.

If anybody can give me a lead on where this passage (no more than a paragraph)
might be found, please write to me at the list or respond privately at

T270166 at univscvm.csd.sc.edu

Thanks,
Justin Pittas-Giroux
Univ. of South Carolina