VLVL2 (9.5): "Interesting Work with Airplanes"

[Dave Monroe]

And cf. as well ...

"After a while DL and Takeshi started renting a
conference room in the Woodbine Motel, just across the
creek from town, for weekends anyway, though the rest
of the time they preferred a back corner in the
sprawling Zero Inn, where anybody could wander through
and contribute to the day's testimony." (VL, Ch. 9, p.
172)

Main Entry: zero
Function: verb
Date: 1913
transitive senses
1 : to determine or adjust the zero of (as a rifle)
2 a : to concentrate firepower on the exact range of
-- usually used with in b : to bring to bear on the
exact range of a target -- usually used with in
intransitive senses
1 : to adjust fire on a specific target -- usually
used with in
2 : to close in on or focus attention on an objective
-- usually used with in

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0312&msg=87468&sort=date

Sorry, a little slow on the draw of late ...

--- Dave Monroe <monrobotics at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "'On second thought, drink right up, I keep
> forgetting, suicide used to be your old lifestyle.'
>    "She was referring to what he had a way of
> calling his 'interesting work with airplanes'
> during World War II." (VL, Ch. 9, p. 175)
> 
> 
> "your old lifestyle"
> 
>        A MOMENT OF FUN WITH TAKESHI AND ICHIZO,
>                 THE KOMICAL KAMIKAZES
> 
>    "Takeshi is tall and fat (but doesn't braid his
> hair like that Margaret O'Brien), Ichizo is short
> and skinny.  Takeshi flies a Zero, while Ichizo
> flies an Ohka device ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 690)

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