V2nd, C3

[Mark Kohut]

pynchon starts his indictment of modernity, of the industrialism that squeezed 
and
destroyed...........



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 11:53:34 PM
Subject: Re: V2nd, C3

Ian Livingston  wrote:
> Picking up where I left off yesterday: as the train leaves the station
> we learn the relation between the sun's arc and that of the train's
> route to Cairo. The two arcs meet in the temporal dimension at Cairo.
> And the spy v. spy story arc also veers into the action, as Waldetar
> passes Lepsius in his blue lenses (cartoon German spy, yes?)
> conferring with his Arab cohort just as death passes by outside.

So what has that railroad to do with V.? With clock time? With labor?
With the price of cotton?