VLVL2 (3) fatal

[pynchonoid]

t:
>Fatal
> doesn't mean first.
> We are told that it wasn't the Last, but we are not
> told that it was the
> first. What is fatal about it? 
> 

"Fatal" is the step that puts you on the slippery
slope to ruin.  If you're paying attention and that
first step registers, it can be quite a spine-tingling
experience.


--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> There is no reason what so ever to connect this
> five-spot to a fatal
> glass of beer in a WC Field's movie. 

No reason not to, either. 

Maybe something in Moby Dick will make more sense? Or
send in a chunk of Dewey. 

I suspect a lot of these scenes that Pynchon creates
in Vineland -- as in the case of Prairie's
silent-film-star-mime -- might be traced from specific
scenes in the TV shows that P mentions in Vineland.  I
imagine P sitting there watching the TV, picking out
postures, props, backdrops, bits of dialogue, as he
storyboards his novel. 



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