IVIV (1) The Street Light

[Dave Monroe]

"They stood in the street light ..." (IV, Ch. 1, p.1)

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"street light"

Like Vineland, and Gravity's Rainbow, here a Pynchon book begins with
light coming through a window. Also like Vineland, the sentence
structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street
light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo Vineland: "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." In both cases,
it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that
shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance
on page 33 of Inherent Vice.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1

Cf. ...

Neon signs of red and green
Shine upon the friendly scene,
Welcoming you in from the sea.  (V., Ch. 1, p. 1)

Cf. ...

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/CoverImagePopup/0,,9781594202247,00.html

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G#greenmagenta