VV (15) - Maijstral

[Mark Wright AIA]

Was this a dumb question? Does anybody know?

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Howdy
> How is Maijstral pronounced? (mystral?)
> Mark
> 
> 
> --- David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/m.html
> > 
> > maijstral
> > 311;Maijistral is Maltese for "north-west or the north-west wind"
> > 
> > Maijstral, Carla (d. 1956)
> > 318; "young wife" of Fausto Sr.; contemplated suicide, 319, 483;
> 321;
> > 478; 489
> > 
> > Maijstral, Fausto
> > 291; father of Paola; 294; 303; confessions of, 304-46; working at
> Ta
> > Kali
> > airfield, 315; "I know of machines that are more complex than
> > people." 322; 444
> > 
> > Maijstral, "old" (Fausto Sr.) (d. ca 1953)
> > 305; shipfitter and spy in Malta for the F.O.; husband of Carla and
> > father of
> > Jr.; 318; 467; w/S. Stencil acting as his spy/double agent, 478
> > 
> > Maijstral, Paola 
> > 14; Maltese wife of Pappy Hod but leaves him; was a barmaid in the
> > Metropolitan
> > Bar in Malta, now at Sailor's Grave; "The girl lived proper nouns.
> > Persons,
> > places. No things." 51; "taken to disappearing for two to three
> > days," 221;
> > "had the passive look of an object of sadism, something to be
> attired
> > in
> > various inanimate costumes and fetishes, tortured, subjected to the
> > weird
> > indignities of Pig's catalogue," 221; 287; 303; 314; 316; 330-31;
> > 365; return
> > to Malta, 367; attempted rape by Pig, 370-71; 416; departs for
> Malta,
> > 422-23;
> > reunion with Poppy, gives him ivory comb, 442-43;

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