GRGR: Wingstroke; fast forward to Adenoid

[Glenn Scheper]

Upon re-reading/hearing Wingstroke,
http://lib.novgorod.net/NABOKOW/Wingstroke.txt

I am struck by how many symbols and feelings are
shared in common with GR!
        skis/sleds - rails,
        blue hues,
        cold,
        glass - ballroom,
        negro bands,
        procedural minutiae,
        several ontically distinguished beings,
        set amidst crowds of other common folk.
        many more I already forgot, and...
        angel - adenoid
        
It is as if Pynchon has taken the Wingstroke text
as a basis for writing, and mapped Nabokov's ideas
up through the tantric ontology of all poesis, and
back down into a new set of metaphorical terms.

I would not skip so much in between, but, looking
forward to the adenoid, has no one before observed
that the adenoid is a metaphor of a female vagina?

Whether simple, or AC, it blocks the nose of "Lord
Blatherard Osmo" not internally, but externally!

Thus, the soldiers willingly are absorbed into it,
laughing! Why, I recall in basic training, when the
gas masks were distributed, and we all held them in
our hands before us, the drill sargent commmanded:
"What does it look like? Put it on!" At that point
in my journey, I had never seen the bilabial thing
to which he referred, his command only evoking the
typical confusion of a naive, from his secret joke.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
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