First line of Against the Day?

[Ya Sam]

Yeah, great image. Although I'm not sure about 'thousands of feet', were the 
cables of the barrage baloons that long?


>From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>To: takoitov at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: First line of Against the Day?
>Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:02:49 +0000
>
>>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?
>
>It's the snow lying in the grooves in the cables, forming the white part of 
>the 'peppermint-stick', twisting down through the night. It's just such a 
>beautiful, poetic image, and so uniquely inventive. *That* to me is what 
>Pynchon's core appeal is all about.
>
>

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