Each great capital

[Ya Sam]

You serious? I thought 'Capitol' was a building.


>From: the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org>
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Each great capital
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>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?
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now!
> > http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
> >
> >

_________________________________________________________________
Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! 
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/