Chapter 45: The Duck Strikes Beak

[John Bailey]

It's 3am Sat in these parts, late enough for prematurely aged me, and I've 
put on my late night spectacles for the occasion, so I'm taking the 
challenge...

Some Moments.
A man on a train who reveals to a young child the electronic switch embedded 
in his arm.
A dupe sits in a field in the spot marked X, with a missile being asked to 
strike it.
V. in Love.
A Counterforce of teenage girls taking on the Mall Security Patrol.
Oedipa meets a sailor.

It's interesting though, Terrance, that you bring up Benny, as most people, 
as far as I can tell, really don't give V. (the book) much credence. For my 
money (such as it is) V. is at least as complex and rewarding as anything 
that comes after, and Benny's scenes have a sort of minute attention to tone 
which isn't found again until M&D, and maybe less successfully there. Maybe 
not.


>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Chapter 45: The Duck Strikes Beak
>Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 11:46:00 -0500
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>John Bailey wrote:
> > I'd be interested in learning what sections of Pynchon novels people
> > consider their own favourites. I'll try to think up a list of my own.
>
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>For me, nothing beats Benny on the train with the kids and Fina.




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