VLVL2 (1): Names in VL [WAS Annotations (pp. 10-11)]

[Dave Monroe]

See ...

Troetser, Anne and Dirk Vanderbeke.  "Vineland--
   The Names."  Pynchon Notes 36-39 (1995-1996):
   139-49.

A simple index of names (it IS "The Index Issue"), but
overwhelming as such nonetheless.  Still, I'm with
Hollander at least this far, that those names are
chosen quite deliberately, for various reasons, and,
as such, are eminenetly worth following up on ...

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
>  
> And not to discount the various meanings that *can*
> be derived from the characters in VL, I find
> Pynchon's use of names in general kind of
> distracting....

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