Re: VLVL2 (1) Zoyd's WORK

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Corathers" <gumbo at fuse.net>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL2 (1) Zoyd's WORK


>
> By the way, did anybody notice that Zoyd answers the question posed on the
> second page of Pynchon's first novel?
>
> "...here were your underage Marine barfing in the street, barmaid with a
> ship's propeller tatooed on each buttock, one potential berserk studying
the
> best technique for jumping through a plate glass window (when to scream
> Geronimo? before or after the glass breaks?)..."
>
> V., p 10
>

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9809&msg=30994
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=50044

And not to forget DeLillo's "Underworld" (on the second page - have no
English page number or quote). But it has been mentioned here before and
someone posted the following link:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_146.html

Otto