Firelily's rider

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 05:25:27 CST 2008


Pynchonwiki V. section said that
Firelily was a horse given to Mondaugen

does that help?

On 1/3/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Been re-reading V. recently. It is still difficult to believe that it was
> written by a guy in his twenties. What a book! The most puzzling, at least
> for me, remains Mondaugen's story. Reality and surreal visions are
> interwoven to such an extent that even upon a second reading it's difficult
> to make sense of this narrative. I rifled through the V. group read and
> could not find any discussion about the identity of the narrator of the
> 'hallucinatory' 1904 flashback referred to as Firelily's rider. Is he and
> Foppl one and the same person? Or maybe some metaphyical stuff is at work?
>
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