VLVL2 (1): Annotations (pp. 10-11) Van Meter

[Peter Fellows-McCully]

> meanings and their anagrammatic possibilities. It seems in 
> most cases they are either obviously jokey (say, Van Meter) 

Don't know if anyone's brought this up or if it's of interest 
but......

Illuminatus Volume 1 "The Eye in the Pyramid" Robert Shea & Robert 
Anton Wilson Sphere Books 1976

Page 125. Someone is reading notes about a world conspiracy and reads:

"'D.E.A.T.H. Don't Ever Antagonize the Horn.' Does Pynchon know?"

and a little later on page 131 a character called Van Meter makes his 
one and only appearance in the novel as a prison inmate with Harry 
Pierpont and John Dillinger.

Seems to indicate that P read at least some RAW. Also interesting in the
light of the fact that RAW covers the themes of various underground
movements
(Wobblies, Weathermen etc.) in this particular book.


pfm