maps in V. and Vineland?

[Dave Monroe]

Not only ...

"a big plexiglas plotting board, engraved with a map
of the city and overlaid with a grid coordinate sheet"
(V., Ch. V, p. 115) ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=50179

But also ...

"a street, like many not on any guidebook's map" (p.
81)

"'Of course there's another plan,' the Gaucho
retorted, 'the only plan. Here, you have a map?'
Eagerly Signor Mantissa produced from an inside pocket
a folded diagram, hand-sketched in pencil...." (p.
170)

"Contour lines and fathom-markings, cross-hatchings
and colors where before there were only blank spaces
on the map. All for the Empire." (p. 179)

"He was escorted along the 'Ritratti diversi'; then
two short rights into a long passageway. He didn't
remember it from Mantissa's map. 'Where does this
lead?'" (p. 187)

"More than this it is two-dimensional, as is the
Street, as are the pages and maps of those little red
handbooks." (p. 441)

"Stencil lit a pipe, consulted a map of Valletta, and
five minutes later was strolling sprightly down Strada
Reale, trailing Maijstral." (p. 505)

Thank you, "Search Inside this Book" @ amazon.com ...

And perhaps as well, in its tracing of the city's
subway system, at least ...

"One morning Profane woke up early, couldn't get back
to sleep and decided on a whim to spend the day like a
yo-yo, shuttling on the subway back and forth
underneath 42nd Street, from Times Square to Grand
Central and vice versa...." (p. 33)

"On the Lexington Avenue downtown he saw a bum lying
across the aisle, diagonal on the seat  He was king of
the subway.  He must have been there all night,
yo-yoing out to Brooklyn and back, tons of water
 swirling over his head and he perhaps dreaming his
own submarine country, people by mermaids and deep-sea
creatures all at peace among the rocks and sunken
galleons ..." (p. 215)

And see here as well ...

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/x-z.html

http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/1959_a.gif

http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/#1940

http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/

And last but not in the least, ah, least ...

Main Entry: plot
Pronunciation: 'plät
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English
1 a : a small area of planted ground <a vegetable
plot> b : a small piece of land in a cemetery c : a
measured piece of land : LOT
2 : GROUND PLAN, PLAT
3 : the plan or main story of a literary work
4 : a secret plan for accomplishing a usually evil or
unlawful end : INTRIGUE
5 : a graphic representation (as a chart) ...

Main Entry: plot
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): plot·ted; plot·ting
transitive senses
1 a : to make a plot, map, or plan of b : to mark or
note on or as if on a map or chart
2 : to lay out in plots
3 a : to locate (a point) by means of coordinates b :
to locate (a curve) by plotted points c : to represent
(an equation) by means of a curve so constructed
4 : to plan or contrive especially secretly
5 : to invent or devise the plot of (a literary work)
intransitive senses
1 : to form a plot : SCHEME
2 : to be located by means of coordinates <the data
plot at a single point>

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

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