MDDM Ch. 70 Higher Assembly

[Dave Monroe]

Very briefly, as I'm in the midst of not only a severe
depressive downswing but at least an attempt to get
some more notes up as well ...

--- Doug Millison <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Here are the last Cadre, out in the uniterrupted
> > Visto,-- from a certain Height, oddly verminous
> > upon the pale Riband unfolding, 
> 
> "verminous" is not a very flattering way to describe
> this group, is it, whether it reflects only the POV
> of a narrator or of Pynchon himself, as the novel
> draws to a close, the negative impact of the Line
> and those who draws it comes into greater relief.

"Verminous" refers not to "Cadre" but to "Visto" here,
reinforcing that Line/Lambton Worm connection as well,
via etymylogy, i.e., "vermi-" = "worm" ...

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