IVIV (1) The Street Light

[Robert Mahnke]

Cf. Against the Day's epigraph:

"It's always night, or we wouldn't need light." - Thelonious Monk

On 8/24/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> street lights, unlike natural light, are bad shit in Pynchon's world.
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> one of the earliest uses of V as image-metaphor in V. is to describe the V-shaped street lights disappearing..............
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> V. herself, getting more inanimate as she ages in V. as we know, was born in the year the first street lights were lit.
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> There are the crackling arc-lights in GR....and the stone-blue lights of the Vacuum.
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> Telluride and Aspen and other places are condemned via their street lights (and many other things) as they ruin the evening redness in the West..
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> Street lights are electric lights, created via the industrial revolution.
> Remember Vibe's HQ on Pearl St in NYCity.....where first electric company was?
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> Under the street lights where Doc And Shasta are is the exact opposite of under the moonlight.......
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> --- On Mon, 8/24/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> > Subject: IVIV (1) The Street Light
> > To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 3:47 PM
> > "They stood in the street light ..."
> > (IV, Ch. 1, p.1)
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> > http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf
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> > "street light"
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> > 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.
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> > http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1
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> > Cf. ...
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> > Neon signs of red and green
> > Shine upon the friendly scene,
> > Welcoming you in from the sea.  (V., Ch. 1, p. 1)
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> > Cf. ...
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> > http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/CoverImagePopup/0,,9781594202247,00.html
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> > http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G#greenmagenta
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