V--2nd, the wind:

[alice wellintown]

He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the
fool will be servant to the wise.
That wind, at least in Pynchon novels, is Grace. The Lord Giveth and
the Lord Taketh.  It blows St. Paul to Malta and Paola to America. But
it is also the wind of the rocket. So, a complex symbol of Grace. Like
Paul, Mason hasn't much resistance to the wind. Dixon has more. Poor
Lazarus has none and must rely on the Charity of Dives. And, you, you
have a drafty house too.

 "He looked up and saw Kurt Mondaugen. The wind all night,
perhaps all year, had brought them together. This is what he
came to believe, that it was the wind." GR.161

"Mason has begun in recent days hearing in the Wind entire
orchestral Performances, of musick distinctly not
British,--Viennese, perhaps, Hungarian, even Moorish. He
finds he cannot concentrate. The Wind seems to be blowing
cross-wise to the light incoming from Sirius, producing
false images, as if, in Bradley's Metaphor for the
Aberration, the Vehicle, Wind, has broken thro' some
Barrier, and entered the nonsense regime of the Tenor,
Light, whilst remaining attached to it. As supernatural as a
Visitant from the Regime of Death to the sunny Colony of
Life,--to be metaphorical about it…"  M&D.173





On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A follow-up on an observation of Laura's (which I cannot locate) worth much
> comment:
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> She noticed the wind around Benny in Chapter 12. Noted Paola's very wind-related
> name....
> Wind is elsewhere and everywhere in P's other works too. Particularly M & D and
> Against the Day, yes?..............................
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> Like water, a good thing, a good element...the 'breath of God' even when
> speaking irreligiously?
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