VLVL(5) Vocabulary

[Toby G Levy]

The interesting vocabulary words in this chapter all appear in one
paragraph on page 57.  Pynchon describes the Dark Ocean Hotel as being
"a towering dihedral wallful of 2,048 rooms with identical lanais
cantilevered into blue space, all facing the Pacific."

"dihedral" is defined as "relating to, having or forming a dihedral
angle." "dihedral angle" is defined as "the angle formed by two
intersecting planes.  In other words if you looked at the Hotel from
above it would resemble the letter X. Four thin wings with all "outside"
rooms.

"lanai" is defined as a Hawaiian verandah.

"cantilever" is defined as "a projecting beam or other structure
supported at only one end."


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