VLVL(4) vocabulary

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
One sense of the word in the ShorterOED indicates that the shingles may
cover the camper shell in some sort of ornamental pattern rather than
in the shaggy random rustic way I'd always imagined. Compare a doper's
possibly obsessive patterning of the camper shingles to the doper's
haircutting in the 'Byron the Bulb' passage in GR. Perhaps the shingle
pattern was a diagonal, "handed" one, in which case it would slope up
on one side and down on the opposite side. This would introduce a sort
of spiralizing tendency to the aerodynamical trim characteristics of
said vehicle (in addition to simple drag) contributing to the peculiar
difficulties Zoyd experiences in cornering.
Live and learn!
Mark

--- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> A neat word on p35: imbrication.  a regular overlapping of edges. 
> Pynchon uses this to describe the camper shell placed on top pf the
> pickup truck he wqas driving.  The shell was covered with cedar
> shingles.
> 
> Toby
> 
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