SLSL Intro "Tendrils"

[Dave Monroe]

"I will spare everybody a detailed discussion of all
the overwriting that occurs in these stories, except
to mention how distressed I am at the number of
tendrils that keep showing up." (SL, "Intro," p. 15)

Cf. ...

"Sunlight, filtered through a great sandstorm far away
in the desert, bounced off an open bay window and
down, too bright, as if amplified, into the courtyard
to illuminate a patch or pool of deep red. Twin
tendrils of it extended to a nearby doorway." (V., p.
235)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54043&sort=date

"In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an
exhibition of paintings by the beautiful Spanish exile
Remedios Varo: in the central paintings of a triptych,
titled 'Bordando el Manto Terrestre,' were a number of
frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes,
spun-gold hair, prisoners in the top room of a
circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which
spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking
hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other
buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and
forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry,
and the tapestry was the world." (Lot 49, pp. 20-1)

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/varo.htm

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inegs/Ekphrasis.htm

"No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a
progressive knotting into ..." (GR, p. 3)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns3.html

Vineland (1990)

http://www.penguinputnam.com/Book/BookFrame/0,1007,,00.html?id=0141180633

"... a great single Engine, the size of a Continent."
(M&D, p. 772)

http://www.reconstruction.ws/021/Haunting.htm

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