pynchon-l-digest V2 #4335

Tue May 24 03:13:51 CDT 2005

Right -- I'm not clear on the memory either, but on the unmapped highway that
leads to the base where Vond's people are holding Frenesi, DL and company pass
those weird mile markers with pictures of (rebellious?) Americans.  Fitting in
with the book's many images of new scales, new gradations.

In the broad sense, GR's Zone is unmapped, though about to be very rigidly
mapped -- a blank space, like the dreamt-of Argentina, where, for a charismatic
moment, "all the fences [are] down..."

Quoting Christopher Len <cllen at verizon.net>:

> Not having thought about it while I was reading, do I recall that
> there are roads that aren't on any maps, or similar language, in
> Vineland? Nothing comes immediately to mind from V., but then there's
> so much to try to remember.
>
> On May 23, 2005, at 3:00 AM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
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> > pynchon-l-digest         Monday, May 23 2005         Volume 02 :
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> > maps in V. and Vineland?
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> > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 22:55:18 -0500
> > From: "Geoff Stacks" <gstacks at purdue.edu>
> > Subject: maps in V. and Vineland?
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> > I'm very interested in Pynchon's use of maps. Of course, I've read M&D
> > carefully, and I'm familiar with Slothrop's map in GR. But are there
> > mentions of maps or mapmaking in his other work? I haven't gotten
> > to V. or
> > Vineland yet, and I thought I'd check with you guys to see if you
> > had any
> > ideas.
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