The Introduction

[gumbo at fuse.net]

And literally "virgin ivy," which at first I took to be a ref to some of the young people who spend time there.

Don Corathers

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> From: "James Kyllo" <jkyllo at clara.net>
> Date: 2003/07/14 Mon AM 10:08:06 EDT
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: The Introduction
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> > 12. Parthenocissus (22)
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> A genus of deciduous tendril climbers
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> (How's that for a Pynchon connection .. & there's another tendril at line
> 658 of the poem)
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> including the Virginia Creeper and the Boston Ivy
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> best
> 
> James
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>