MDDM Ch. 70 Higher Assembly

[Doug Millison]

Verminous could describe both Visto and the people on it, I think.
"Verminous" in the sense of "crawling with vermin". Mason and Dixon and co.
were probably  crawling with vermin, too.  Pynchon doesn't mention them
bathing much (perhaps not at all, I don't remember), and Mason does seem to
have a strange aversion to that Tub.


At 7:11 PM -0700 8/17/02, Dave Monroe wrote:
>Talk about yr strange bedfellows ...

Plenty of room in here....



> Line vs. circle.

You said it.  Pynchon seems to love the simple metaphors among his
arabesques, doesn't he.

>And cf. as well ...
>
>William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1927)
>
>Turning and turning in the widening gyre
>The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
>The best lack all conviction, while the worst
>Are full of passionate intensity....
>
>http://home.europa.com/~villon/SecondComing.html

Looks like that Ampersand...



>Only a vantage point, and not necessarily a viewer, or
>a means for him/her to reach said point, simply, "from
>a certain Height."

That would explain it, yes.