AtD (37) p.1040 Thetis, Shalimar and Mezzanine

[Mark Kohut]

belated research indicates that the mezzanine deck is where torpedoes
are kept on submarines.........

So, we have two battleships and a torpedo deck surrounding Lew. 


--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: AtD (37) p.1040 Thetis, Shalimar and Mezzanine
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 7:46 AM
> Thetis: Mother of Achilles (in the Iliad; in Greek
> mythology)....and, much later (smile) a battleship in the
> real world.(Also, a name in a Ronald Firbank novel. Pynchon
> seems to have read Firbank, says Harold Bloom. [Much AtD
> dialogue is Firbank-like, from my partial reading of one
> novel]
> 
> Shalimar: A railway station in India, a perfume and also a
> battleship HMS Shalimar (P242),
> 
> Mezzanine: a floor between main and first floors (nice
> "making it in Hollywood" joke?)