VLVL: chapt 7, p. 92 real and fake

[Michael Joseph]

well, terence, a lot of Pynchon's novel doesn't "fit between the covers."
Like foot pain, you know? The kind that doesn't fit inside the shoe.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

M



On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Terrance wrote:

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> Michael Joseph wrote:
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> > Paul, another exciting inroad into the text. Do you see any resonance of
> > Augustine's City on the Hill in the hillside description beginning this
> > chapter, and in this any suggestion of the Wayvones being a metonymy of
> > idealized America?  I can see this idea resonating with Otto's regarding
> > the ironic identification of the good family and la cosa nostra: American
> > "family values" are being equated with patriarchal control, and the City
> > on the Hill becoming a mafia seizin or stronghold--which the text offers
> > in several versions. [more responses interlined below]
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> I still can't see how these ideological reading can fit between the
> covers of P's novel unless you tear out three fifths of the book.
> Wayvone or his holding company are not on Brock's team.
>