Re. Vineland, page 3

[Mark Kohut]

Just a little metaphoric hyperrealism?


--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Re. Vineland, page 3
> To: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 9:47 PM
> I live in California (not near the Oregon border) and we
> call them bluejays (or jays) even though they might
> technically be scrub jays.   They squawk a lot and steal so
> they're not popular.  I had a suicidal jay dive-bomb
> into my window screens for a few months.  They don't
> really live "together" but there'll be a whole
> batch of them in a tree.   I can't quite imagine a
> "squadron" of them "stomping around" 
> anywhere.   Surely this is a leftover from the dream?
> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Western_Scrub-Jay.html
> 
> Bekah
> 
> 
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Carvill John wrote:
> 
> > "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984,
> Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping
> fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays
> stomping around on the roof."