IVIV (1) The Street Light

[Dave Monroe]

Damn.  Thanks!

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Robert Mahnke<rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Under the street lights where Doc And Shasta are is the exact opposite of under the moonlight.......