AtDDtA1: The Southerly Wind

[Dave Monroe]

"... ascended briskly into the morning, and soon caught the southerly
wind." (AtD, Pt. I, Ch.1, p. 3)


A last-minute entry here, as it just now strikes me that both wind and
direction tend to be Of Significance in Those Pynchonian Texts, e.g.,
on GR ...

"Considered as poetry, I don't know how well the sonnet holds up as a
whole, but there are some nice lines: the final couplet quoted above,
and lines 7-8. But line 12 puzzles me: 'Here, underneath my last and
splintering wind'. Wind is clearly an important symbol for Pynchon. In
the first glimpse of the 'other side' we see, the spirit at the seance
talks about 'the wind' (34), and the mysterious superhero Sundial came
from 'across the wind.' (550)"

http://completelyfutile.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_completelyfutile_archive.html

North is not a positive place in Pynchon's world. It is associated
with anti-life---coldness as here---compared to the South, a place of
light and warmth, such as the tropics. See GR....

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25

Further examples, explication, elaboration and comments appreciated.
As always ...