AtDDtA1: The Southerly Wind

[Tim Strzechowski]

This entry reminds me of how wind directions can have significance in literature and film in general.  I'm away from my personal copies of things at the moment, but Hitchcock's _North by Northwest_ is a reference to Hamlet's lines re: madness to RosenGuildsterncrantz.  And in _Bleak House_, Mr. Jarndyce makes repeated references to the wind as it affects his moods (an "easterly wind," I think).  

Damnit, I want to quote things and can't at the moment!

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> 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 ... 
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> 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.... 
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25 
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> Further examples, explication, elaboration and comments appreciated. 
> As always ... 
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