First line of Against the Day?

[Ya Sam]

Wow. Thanks for explaining. Pynchon's metaphors are really something.


>From: the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org>
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: First line of Against the Day?
>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:57:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
>On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Ya Sam wrote:
>
> > white goes twisting peppermint-stick down
> > > > thousands of feet of night. "
> > > >
> >
> > One of the sentences I have problems understanding. Is he comparing
> > snowflakes to the peppermint-sticks or is 'white' something else?
>
>	The cables are like ropes, braided in a spiral.  The snow
>has stuck to parts the cables, perhaps in the crevices, or just in the
>crevices on their top slope.

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