VLVL(5) Vocabulary

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Dave Monroe
> <monrovius at yahoo.com> writes:
> > This occured to me as well, but so long as all the
> > rooms on the four segments of the X have windows
> > facing the ocean, they could conceivably all have an
> > ocean view.  Helps if the hotel is situated thus ...
> > 
> >      ~~~~~~~                           (  
> >         X       ... rather than ...  X (
> >                                        (
> >  
> > ... of course, not everyone will have an equally good
> > view, but you get what you pay for 

and 

> > --- Mary Krimmel <mary at krimmel.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > A dihedral angle is also formed by two half-planes
> > > meeting in a line. I see the Hotel as resembling a
> > > very wide letter V, two thin wings with all 
> > > outside rooms. It would be hard for the four wings
> > > of an X to all face the Pacific.

I'm with Mary on this. a dihedral angle can be a *Vee*. It's another
manifestation of Pynchon's V-phanomen. the point might point towards
teh ocean, but I think here it probably points away, forming a sort of
implied territorial enclosure along the beach front. The best thing
about the "X" notion is the way that an ocean view also gets you an
oblique view of all those hundreds of balconies across the way. Making
any tomfoolery upon these aerial "lanais" "semi-public" as P describes.
A V layout with the point pointing back to land preserves this
property. I'll try to diagram it:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
           beach


           pool
         \       /
          \     /
           \   /
parking     \A/     parking

         
Where A is the Lobby and Porte-cochere, and the wings are spread a bit
wider, (lasciviously!) to the beach.

V-phanomen, yessiree.

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