Housecleaning ...

[Dave Monroe]

... well, more random annotations, observations, whatever, just to get
'em outta my head (now if only I could do the same with that "Feelin'
Seven Up" jingle) ...

--Rachel Owlglass, well, again, awaiting someone who might actually know
something about the possible Euelnspiegel connection here (as well as to
expalin to me why there is both a puppet theater
[http://www.avalon.net/~owlglass/eulenspiegel.html] and an S&M club
[http://www.tes.com] of that name), but, also, "owlglass," "hourglass,"
that "figure envelope" of Benny Profane's (p. 32, Harper ed., V. I.v.,
more generally).  Reminds me, Hourglass Lake in Vladimir Nabokov's
Lolita as well (and note that "jailbait" in V., ibid.).  Entry therefor
in nifty online Nabokov A-Z:

http://www.davidson.edu/academic/english/faculty/zk/vnaz/h.htm#hour

--If no one's nailed me on it yet, well, giving myself up here.  SHOULD
have said that Benny and Rachel's quarryside, er, tryst (p. 19 Harper
ed.; I.iii) might be a reference to, spoof of the opening of Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, not her Atlas Shrugged.  But I'm embarrassed enough to
admit I'd even know that in the first place, so ... but, again, Mafia
Winsome, "Heroic Love," "those who know," for better or worse, "know,"
certainly, Pynchon did, so ...

--Thanks once, yet, whatever, again (and again and again ...) for some
excellent annotation there, Terrance.  My kabbalist friend made some
interesting observations in re: the sephhiroth and V. as well for me
last night, ones he explicitly dovetailed (and you know that's gonna be
explicit, that dovetail ...) to my own speculations (...) about simple
harmonic motion and/or that "V", that period, in the book, its title.
Don't have that Gershom Scholem book that was apparently Pynchon's
source (Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism?) but do have a latter work (On
the Kaballah and Its Symbolism), will see if I can reconstruct.  But
perhaps you can infer ...?

--But speaking of simple harmonic motion, simple harmonic oscillators
and, again (not taht I'm complaining, it's the single most fascinating
extant piece of lit'rachure to me), the closing pages of Gravity's
Rainbow, that "bouncing ball," that "turn[ing ...] time," that "Come on,
start the SHOw!" ... if you catch my acronym (and recall, that
lower-case omega, that electrical angineering symbol for frequenecy,
that little apocalypse, whatever ...) ... anyway, some more nifty,
illustrative hyperlinks:

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~hwang/shm/shm.html

http://members.nbci.com/Surendranath/Shm/Shm01.html

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/shm/Q.shm.html

Let me know ...