Coy

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
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> . . . I think Coy Harlingen's story is a version of the Orpheus and  
> Euridice story of Greek myth which may be a major mythic refrain of  
> the novel. It takes up a regular pattern and theme of Pynchon's  
> fiction in journeys to the underworld( Vheissu . . .

Bossa Nova was brought into the world thanks to "Black Orpheus":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0jZRkFtksI