Each great capital

[the Robot Vegetable]

A city where a government resides is a 'Capitol',
 not a 'capital'.





On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Ya Sam wrote:

> Most probably it was discussed before, during one of the GR group reads but 
> I will ask this question anyway. The problem I'm having is the disturbing 
> sentence on the very last page of GR: 'It may have been a human figure, 
> dreaming of an early evening in each great capital luminous enough to tell 
> him he will never die, coming outside to wish on the first star'. My first 
> reading was that each great capital is the respective capital cities of the 
> conflicting superpowers, Washington and Moscow, awaiting the nuclear blast. 
> But when the same passage was being read in the Pynchon documentary, they 
> were showing luminous capitals of a cinema sign. Now, when I come to think 
> of it, Pynchon might have used the polysemy of the word 'capital' on purpose 
> to create this ambiguity. What do you think?
> 
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