V. help and disscusion

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jordan
Hunnicutt<antipusrises at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to Pynchon as well as the list.  Right now I'm reading V. and loving
> it.  I'm enamored by the black comedy that's throughout the book.  I would
> say that I am doing pretty good so far at navigating the dense prose (I
> equate some chapters as the literary equivalent of being waterboarded) but
> this passage has me beat.  In my edition it starts on pg. 168 and goes
> though 169.  It's in chapter 7, part 6 where Godolphin is running from the
> police and starts with "He turned right and headed toward the Duomo..."
> That entire paragraph is really intense and I'm having a very hard time
> following the characters line of thought as to what exactly is going on.
>
> Is there anyone that would care to elaborate or explain this.  Any tips
> would be greatly apreciated.

We manage to help you at all with this?  Let us know, we may need to
make a second pass at it.  Thanks!