AtD, as the wheel turns, turns, turns

[Bekah]

Or instead of the world's a circus - the world's a casino with  
various kinds of cards,  crap shoots,  roulette and knowing when to  
hold 'em.

Bekah

On Apr 21, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I want to add this belated thought.....Yashmeen and Reef win at  
> roulette despite hoouse odds.....the roulette wheel seems to tie in  
> to P's book-length wheel metaphors, from Wheel of Becoming [ see  
> wikipedia], through madalas through ferris wheels---and circus  
> motif---thru
> roulette wheel (and everything else I'm forgetting or missing).
>
> Suggestion: that Y and Reef just win at roulette and the world as a  
> circus is another book-length metaphor, I think it is safe to say  
> Pynchon shows the decline of "wheel"s as meaningful from its  
> religious down to simply making money.....a less overt decline than  
> V.'s,
> but still, one of P's deepest themes: Decline.
>
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