VLVL2 (1): Annotations (pp. 3 - 4)

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In a message dated 7/15/03 6:53:35 AM, mjoseph at rci.rutgers.edu writes:

<<  It's
interesting that Pynchon describes Zoyd's inability to read or understand
the message of the other-worldly pigeons a the beginning of his own book,
seemingly an ironic invocation to readers, and that he uses the phrase,
"but none of whom . . . he could ever get get to in time." The contrast is
subtly made between what doesn't understand "in time," that is the
profane, and what might understand 'out of time,' the sacred.
 >>

Zoyd, later on, will indicate that he too is capable of flight, but,
only the "out of body" type of flight, whence similarly, he is unable
to read street signs or identify exact locations. Out of body, out
of time, but not quite out of mind. Preternatural- sacred for the
preterite?

respectfully