V.V. (14) Ruby

[Dave Monroe]

And speaking of "Ruby," a.k.a., Paola Maijstral, do
everyone, if you haven't already, see ...

http://home.achilles.net/~howardm/pynchon.shtml

I would note, though, that the McClintic Sphere/Paola
"Ruby" Maijstral relationship also has overtones of
that between Miles Davis and Juliette Greco.  African
American cool jazz musician meets dark-haired European
bohemianette with a penchant for Boris Vian songs
("learned from a para on French leave from the
fighting in Algeria" [V., p. 18]).  See  Lewis
MacAdams, Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the
American Avant-Garde (New York: The Free Press, 2001),
p. 24, which I was kind enough to cite at length for
y'all a while back @ ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0101&msg=775&sort=date

Again, whatever can be brought to bear ...



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