VLVL2(3): Van Meter

[Otto]

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From: "Dave Monroe" <monrovius at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:27 PM
Subject: VLVL2(3): Van Meter


> 
> Illuminatus Volume 1 "The Eye in the Pyramid" Robert
> Shea & Robert Anton Wilson Sphere Books 1976
> 
> Page 125. Someone is reading notes about a world
> conspiracy and reads:
> 
> "'D.E.A.T.H. Don't Ever Antagonize the Horn.' Does
> Pynchon know?"
> 
> and a little later on page 131 a character called Van
> Meter makes his one and only appearance in the novel
> as a prison inmate with Harry Pierpont and John
> Dillinger.
> 
> Seems to indicate that P read at least some RAW. Also
> interesting in the light of the fact that RAW covers
> the themes of various underground movements (Wobblies,
> Weathermen etc.) in this particular book.
> 

It's the other way round. RAW has read a lot of Pynchon.

John-Dillinger-Dies-for-You-Society, Section Germany