VLVL(12) pgs 239- 246

Bekah Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 2 08:25:20 CST 2009


Good point about the bedsheets.  LA is not days distant and they  
didn't have many trolley cars there in 1969.  San Francisco might  
fill that with yellow trolley cars but I don't know about the plaza.  
then.

I coming to think it's a little dream sequence.

Bekah

On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:45 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Yes, sly stuff here on the page....Brock's "grand jury"?....She had  
> trouble understanding what they wanted...maybe only her appearance  
> before them.....[no indictment?, no  
> particularity?] ........'trolley cars in grimy black  
> webbing"...reminiscent of
> Pynchon's vision of steel in GR, of electricity in AtD...."the  
> grand jury already knew her story".........her whole
> grand jury 'appearance' reminiscent of The Trial......then in the  
> middle of that paragraph,
>
> She woke in bedsheets, etc.....if a dream sequence, shouldn't it  
> start a new paragraph?......unless her paranoia and reality
> have merged?....
>
> Later. "Who, again, did she understand this "they' to be?"  
> They......that wonderful word from GR.....
>
>
>




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