GRGR(2): fireflies and a winter no one has guessed at

[Basileios Drolias]

On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> > 1) (V22.30) "He likes to tell them about fireflies. English girls don't
> > know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about
> > English girls."

sorry for the late reply, but it just happened that I just bumped onto 
the fireflies theme in a book that I finishe yesterday: In Simone de 
Bauvoir's "The mandarin's" a woman is `seduced' by an American writer who 
talks to her (and shows her) fireflies. The theme and the description is 
remarkably pynchonite. It may be possible that TRP used teh theme from 
there...

basil