coventry

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The word coventry has something to do with prison. 
Prison ships too (in fact, moving John Kennedy Jr to 
Washington, as Teddy advised, was so stupid because
he was a New Yorker and New Englander, his plane
crashed in the most sacred waters off Long Island,
where thousands of Revolutionaries died in British
prison ships--the Kennedy clan erected several
monuments around New York when the bones of these
Revolutionaries were disturbed by development on the
water fronts around New York. 


A state of ostracism or exile: After Coventry, England
(possibly from the sending of Royalist prisoners there
during the English Civil War).

Chapter 57 opens with a play. A dark comedy staged at 
a typical undergound and off-off-off Broadway 
ambulating theatre. coincidentally happening this very
night on  Broadway at a theatre, nameless, 
subterranean. Dixon, always hip, his ear close to the 
ground, attends. The play is about a prison. At least
it named or one of its names alludes to the Black hole
of Calucutta. A Peevish Wazir? Waziristan? We have to
turn back in the novel and look at the black hole
scenes. Anyway, there is an elephant and girls!
Dixon's 
not quite sure what the hell is going on. The point
being that there are no points or there are infinite
points or only one-a black hole point. So, back stage
to chat with the girls goes Dixon and more pointless
good fun. But, Dixon ends up with the sons of liberty
and politics is the point. Pynchon is into the
tabloids, even if it is his favorite source of current
events since V., the new york times. Amy and Joey and
Massapequa. So, the Kennedy is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

Chow, 

PD&B 

Now they know how many holes it takes....



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