vv2: Splitting The Son

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>From: "s~Z" <keith at pfmentum.com>
>To: "Pynchlist" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: vv2: Splitting The Son
>Date: Thu, Oct 19, 2000, 7:31 AM
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> "....as Profane started through the doors closed on him, squeezing him in
> the middle. Fina's eyes went wide like her brother's. With a frightened
> little cry she took Profane's hand and tugged, and a miracle happened. The
> doors opened again. She gathered him inside, into her quiet field of force.
> He knew all at once:  here, for the time being, Profane the schlemihl can
> move nimble and sure."

But cf also the "fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school" who
"straddles the line" between social and professional respectability and the
faux bohemianism of the WSC, and who goes on learning "how to be a twinned
man ... straddling until he splits up the crotch and in half from prolonged
tension"; in Don Corathers' V.V.(3) at 58.17.