Some Remarks of a new Subscriber.

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Michel Ryckx wrote:

> If I may give you a personal example: since my childhood I've been
> hearing stories about World War II (I even asked once how many wars
> my mother had lived through, and if they used swords -which made her
> very angry).  Yes, one could live with the German occupation -though
> it was difficult of course- but the real horror came when the war
> ended: V1's (one hit my school) and V2's.  Every citizen in this
> town (Antwerp, Belgium) can still point you out the movie theatre
> that was hit by the first V2, causing over 350 dead injuries.  And
> it was the panic that was the worst, the panic and not being able to
> foresee what was going to happen.

> 
> GR was the first novel by mr. Pynchon I ever read.  I was hit from the first phrase on.
> 
> I sincerely hope I didn't commit too many grammatical errors.

Grammar's never a problem on the p-list, Michel, but I'm really
curious about something. With V2s still landing, what led your 
informants to believe the War had ended?

			P.