grant's companions (was: Happy Birthday ...)

[Dave Monroe]

... okay, here 'tis, from J. Kerry Grant, A Companion to V. (Athens: U
of Georgia Press, 2000), p. 188 ...

PC478.27 PF444.1 B417.41  Fenice  In a posting to the Pynchon Discussion
List (February 3, 1996), Paul Mackin speculates that Pynchon may have
been thinking of the Venetian opera house, La Fenice.

... though I can't find the original post right now.  And I guess I was
thinking of the 212 pages before teh index--just the lat page number I
saw ...