VLVL What's it all "about"?

[joeallonby]

on 2/14/04 9:23 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> 
>> 
>> "Uhuru", by the way, means "freedom" in Swahili, and is used in the name of
>> various world-wide organisations devoted to democracy and equity for African
>> peoples, including an organisation which began in California in 1981

And also this:

<http://www.artistsonly.com/blacku.htm>

 
> I wonder if Pynchon knows that. I don't know any brothers who  speak or
> read Swahili, but reconnaissance in Black English means,  to police and
> area. And, it kinda makes sense, don't you think?