vv2: "persistence of vision"

[Dave Monroe]

Hokay, finally found that "persistence of vision" ref., in the Harper
Whatever eds., p. 32, i.e., V. I.V or whatever (guessing that's p. 38 of
the Bantam ed., then?).  Guess is wasn't really all that impertive to
pursue here after all, but I did get a quick refresher on some cinema
studie stuff, so ... but, yeah, reading that as Jose's "forearms and
hands vibrating" too quickly, with too great a frequency, to register as
continuous motion to even that cinematic sampling rate.  But reminds me
...

Three paragraphs above, top o' the Harper page, Profane "yo-yoing"
again, "jailbait" again (retroactively), all sorts o' harmonic motion
here, simple or otherwise, "great unspecific waves of horniness,"
"figure envelope," "eyeballs still oscillating," "a wish that his neck
could rotate through the full 360 [degrees]."  Reminds me, see that
Exorcist rerealease, if only for the "spiderwalk," not to mention the
remastered, resculptured sound ...

A coupla other quick notes.  Note pp. 19f. (I.iii), Benny and Rachel
(and, hey, can anybody comment on that Owlglass/Eulenspiegel thing for
me?) at that quarry.  Keeping in mind Mafia Winsome and her "Heroic
Love" later on, can't help but think now of that infamous opening of Ayn
Rand's Atalas Shrugged, with BP as a decidedly nonobjectivist
unubermensch ...

And p. 23 (I.iv), "Rodgers and Hammerstein in 3/4 time," thinking "My
Favorite Things" here, it'd have been nigh unto impossible not to see
The Sound of Music ca. the time TRP would have been writing V., no?
But, also, John Coltrane, and, hence, by association, McClintic Sphere,
though the latter seems more a Theolonius Monk figure, on which, do see
...

http://www.achilles.net/~howardm/pynchon.html

Well, just a little housecleaning for today, is all ...