GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy!
That was my nail.  And I hit it first.
So there.
Mark

--- David Morris <davidm at hrihci.com> wrote:
> Mark Wright AIA:
> > Can't say as I understand fully what all the fuss is about here,
> > either.  Even WITH an apostrophe the SS reference would remain
> > unmistakable.
> > Mark
> 
> rj:
> >Hmm. Let's see:
> >... cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like Ss.
> >... cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are shaped like S's.
> >[snip]
> >There's no analogy or metaphor being made between the pulleys, or
> the
> >spokes, or anything else in the sentence, and the SS, is there?
> >(Although, now that I think about it ...?) If we assume it to be a
> >*definite*, intentional reference then it suddenly becomes a pretty
> >gratuitous and weak and unPynchonian one, doesn't it?
> 
> rj hits the nail squarely.  The image is really the yin/yang, and it
> is
> repeated later in the two goldfish in a bowl making a Pisces sign,
> swimming
> head-to-tail (174.11)
> 
> 

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