VV(18): Kimono

Thu Jun 14 18:15:37 CDT 2001

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>
>1990 having been a hell of a year for Pynchoniana.
>But I'm reminded not only of the solar allusions
>throughout the chapter ("sunbursts"), not only of the
>"jungle" into which Melanie's mysterious father might
>have disappeared ("jungly greens"), not only of the
>alleged circularity of "gravity's rainbow" in a
>different novel entirely ("concentric rings of ..."),
>but also ...
>
>1 After this I looked, and, behold,
>
>Revelations 4:1-3 ...

Benny is a Jew, the Jews were nomads, they moved at night
and so their calendar was lunar, but the Christians were
Romans, the Sun. The Christian calender is a double.

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