Each great capital

[the Robot Vegetable]

Ok, I'm wrong. <erases decades of misuse from memory...>



On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, David Kipen wrote:

> Do you want to tell him, or should I?
> 
> On 8/28/06, the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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