XV

[Terrance]

Samuel Moyer wrote:

> Despite the often seriousness of> this list... Pynchon is funny as hell... 

Yeah, I agree. Why are skipping a very funny chapter? 

Three are in it now. 

One is looking for V (are you my mother and what happened to
my father and I want to find out but I am afraid)

One is concerned about her father, maybe he has flipped or
flopped. 

One is a Yo-Yo. 

One has the key to the church and she is a prostitute and
she wants to make love to the yo-yo. 

The yo-yo doesn't want to make love to the prostitute, she's
not a wind up girl, not an old flame, not a creditor.  He
can get it for free from his red head, she likes to take
care of bums. Rooney is now a bum, and what better place to
be a bum then on the steps of St. Patricks on a Sunday when
all the tourists are in town. Stencil is a bum too. So to
Washington, the second city of bums, many like Stencil,
connected and paranoid. You don't need a red head bum keeper
or a prostitute with church key down in Washington, there
are eight times as many women as there are men, but you will
want to bring a pig and get very drunk because black outs
and blank spaces are in the story and then go to Dali's Last
Supper for Flip and Flop and perhaps a little Hanky Panky.