V2nd, C3: pov in sec. viii

[David Payne]

I tried to mentally block it out, too, and I saw it differently than Mark did:

I pictured the statue at the east end of the east/west corridor, in a corner where the corridor curves around to the north. All the boxes are on the north side of the corridor. I saw the corridor ending at a window on the west end. Therefore, all characters would walk past the statue and toward the light. 

Three questions:

1. Did the second set of characters enter the third box from the stage end?
2. Did the "other" character emerged from the first box?
3.  The first sentence of the second paragraph is: "A man wearing blue 
spectacles hurries into the second box from the stage end of the 
corridor." Does this mean, "A man hurries from the stage end of the corridor. He enters into the second box"? Or does it mean, "A man hurries into a box. The box that he hurried into was the second box from the stage end of the corridor"?

I agree with Mark and John that we need to see architectural plans and a map showing which way is west. But what building are we looking for? See Baedeker p. 37, "f. Theatres":

http://books.google.com/books?id=AnVBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP6&dq=egypt+and+the+sudan&hl=en&ei=WFhMTPXrOsKJnQf33a3YCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=opera%20house&f=false

The Baedeker says: "Summer theatres (actors generally Italian), in the Ezbekiyeh Gardens and adjoining the Kasr en-Nil Terrace at the Nile Bridge".

What does that mean? That there were two summer theaters and they were both outdoors?

Did Pynchon actually use the Khedivial Opera House which the Baedeker 
identifies as used during the winter season, "the arrangement ... of which resembles those of Italian theatres"? 

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khedivial_Opera_House
 		 	   		  
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