VLVL(4) vocabulary

[Vincent A. Maeder]

Both ideas are plausible, as would the sheer size of such a camper on
the back end of some small pickup truck.  V.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Terrance
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:01 AM
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: VLVL(4) vocabulary
> 
> Hello Mark,
> 
> Just a carpenter, you know, ain't about to argue with a architect but
I
> can read a materials list and it says Cedar Shake, not shingle. Big
> difference there.  And given that these are shakes and not shingles a
> doper's idea of imbrication would be irregular enough to top over a
> small truck.
> 
> Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> >
> > 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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