And: "For which you have just earned five more demerits" (p. 4). And: In Roman numerals a five is ... a V. > > Note that there's five Chums, the number of chapters of the book. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20070122/3d590f14/attachment.html>