WE, an early dystopian novel;1921, 24 English; Zamyatin

[Mark Kohut]

that influenced 1984 and which Pynchon has surely read. Very influenced
by English writers, such as Wells, an allusion to "Tristram Shandy" despite the writer's Russianness

Today's Kute Korrespondence theme: apelikeness...the narrator, a perfectly 'logical' thinker of OneState of the 26th Century, says
of his hands: "They're hairy, shaggy, some kind of stupid throwback...
monkey's hands".....

Remember the pervasive blue in Vineland?: in We: "blue sky, sterile and
immobile"...."the deep blue depth of things", [revealing] "astonishing equations".

Cf. L49: "The tower is everywhere" ...narrator "I'm like a tower, I'm afraide to move my elbow for fear of shattering the walls, the cupolas, the machines"...

and crystal: "All sky-blue crystal regularity".....and variations of...