Each great capital

[David Kipen]

Do you want to tell him, or should I?

On 8/28/06, the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
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> A city where a government resides is a 'Capitol',
> not a 'capital'.
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> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Ya Sam wrote:
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> > 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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