The Courier's Tragedy

[wood jim]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> And, of course ...
> 
> "When Oedipa visits Emory Bortz, he tells her of an
> edition of The Courier's Tragedy in the Vatican
> library, a pornographic version, '"[i]llicit
> microfilms"' of which Bortz '"smuggled out"' of the
> Vatican in 1961 ([Lot 49, p.] 154).  This datum,
> togetrher with the earlier name Jesus Arrabal--Jesus
> of teh suburbs (Spanish arrabal = suburb)--evokes
> the
> Second-World-War Vatican adventures of one James
> SJesus Angleton, a legendary player inthe real CIA,
> with its washington campus in Langley, Virginia, the
> CIA Pynchon has teased us with all along." (p. 95)


How did we get the CIA into the book this time? 

Arrabal = suburb in Spanish and the CIA is in the
suburbs? 

You have to admit this is not as easy to overlook at
Varo/Varro. 


Add to this James Jesus Angleton. Why? 

The Vatican libray? Come on. Get the joke, it's good,
it's funny.  

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