VV(13) - Dream a Little One for Me

[Dave Monroe]

That remark about Mondaugen finding himself crying
"for the first time since hearing about the Treaty of
Versailles in detail" (p. 260) is to the point here, I
think, on indeed one of those rare occasions we
happily  (for all concerned, no doubt) find ourselves
in agreement.  It stuck with me this morning as I
reread Ch. 9 with an eye precisely towards the issues
you bring up here.  And you know well that Kurt's
later activities (in both V. and Gravity's Rainbow)
are of no  small concern to me as well.  And much
"stencilization," "mondaugenization,"
"pynchonization," even, going on here, no doubt, but
... 

But just as this gets interesting, I've got to run.  A
friend is giving a lecture on "First Ladies" as part
of some strange "lecture series" at a local gallery. 
Other topics on other nights include "Baby Vegetables"
an "Revolving Doors."  I've been told I'm going to be
tapped on "The Yeti" or "Sasquatch" or somesuch.  God
knows why, but I'm prepared.  In the meantime, scored
a copy of First Lady: My Thirty Days Upstairs in the
White House, by Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield as told
to Patrick Dennis (of Auntie Mame fame).  Not to
mention Leonard Nimoy's Warmed by Love ...

Rocket ships
  Are exciting
But so are roses
  On a birthday

Computers are exciting
  But so is a sunset

And logic
  Will never replace
                 Love

Sometimes I wonder
Where I belong
  In the future
            Or
  In the past

I'm guessing i'm just
  An old-fashioned
         Spaceman

Printed in brown ink, of course.  And I'm still
working on my "Victor Buono: A One-Man Show."  Live
long and prosper ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, I'll happily stand corrected on that
> particular point. 
> 
> I guess this brings up the issue of Mondaugen's
> characterisation in _V._ and
> that in _GR_. We seem to be agreeing that
> Mondaugen's final act in leaving
> the Siege Party is affirmative, but I'm not sure
> that he comes across as
> such an positive character in the later novel at
> all. And, I guess it's also
> easy to overlook that he's telling the story here,
> and so would undoubtedly
> paint himself in a flattering light. And let's not
> forget that our boy Kurt
> is working on missile guidance systems for ol'
> Bloody Chiclitz out on Long
> Island there in the mid-50s as well. (Re.
> problematisations &c ... )

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