VLVL2(4)(ww) Cloudpressed Lane

[Dave Monroe]

And cf. not only ...

"Mr. Spock's hand salute"  (VL, Ch. 1, p. 11)

As well as ...

"... 'tis Dixon's luck to discover The Rabbi of
Prague,
headquarters of a Kabbalistick Faith, in
correspondence with the Elect Cohens of Paris, whose
private Salute they now greet Dixon with, the Fingers
spread two and two, and the Thumb held away from them
likewise, said to represent the Hebrew letter Shin and
to signify, 'live long and prosper.'" (M&D, Ch. 50, p.
485)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0205&msg=66774&sort=date

But also ...

"The 'Uncle' seems young for one of that
Designation, his Hair a-shine with some scented
Pomade, side-whiskers shav'd to quite acute Angles,
his hand ever straying to consult the over-siz'd and
far from ornamental Dirk he wears in a Scabbard upon
his Belt." (M&D, Ch. 40, p. 400)

   "'Look what Pussy's brought in,'leers a Half-Breed
with a braided Queue." (M&D, Ch. 40, p. 401)

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/stmagazine/mirror-mirror-1.jpg


http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65844&sort=date

And consider as well perhaps the articulation of ST to
the Johnson/Nixon administrations, TNG to the
Reagan/Bush dynasty, DS9/Voyager to the Clinton years,
and Enterprise to the Bush II, er, regency.  And then
there's the movies, but ...

--- "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cycn-phx.com> wrote:
>
> "and quickly, in an arc unexpectedly graceful, they
> had all turned outward, tached up, engaged, and like
> a time machine departing for the future, forever too
> soon for Zoyd, boomed away up the thin cloudpressed
> lane."  (VL, Ch. 4, p. 55)  A few things here. 
> First, the description of the departure is very Star
> Trek Next Generation ...

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