V.V. (3) "Young Stencil the world adventurer"

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"On an evening in 1946
on the western coast of Mallorca; the
sun was setting into think clouds, turning all the visible
sea into a sheet of pearl-gray. Perhaps they may have felt
like the last two gods-the last inhabitants-of a watery
earth; or perhaps-but it would be unfair to infer. Whatever
the reason, the scene played as follows:" V.HP.48

Graves wrote The White Goddess on the island of Mallorca.  I
think we might bear in mind that Stencil, a typical
Pynchonian character, a character like Slothrop or Greta,
with too many identities, is invested not only with the
writings of Henry Adams, Robert Graves, several others, but
with their biographies as well. 

Note how Berger, in his essay on VL, demonstrates that
Pynchon works with overlapping stereotypes,  ideologies of
extreme, generating huge laughter through the use of parody
and irony. 

Heidegger, now that's really good stuff Dave Monroe. We
disagree, I think, about that Borgness, but as an old
hand-nailer replaced by the nail-gun, I call my computer my
hammer btw, I know a bit about the unlocking of nature's
energy and her its transformation, its storage, its
distribution. There she sits, the gas powered compressor,
her hoses stiff with the wind of the machine, clack, clack,
clack, clack, a college boy laying down ten square of
roofing by the clock. He never thinks of the sun, the wind,
the extension of his human  primordial immersions in the
Zeug, that intuitive swinging, not the job, the roof, the
finished product, but the act of building. The goal of the
carpenter, in Aristotle's sense, may be, a sound structure,
but it is in the Activity of the soul, that we should find
the virtues.  


http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/reviews/ancient-goddesses/