V2nd, C3: pov in sec. viii

[Mark Kohut]

I see it, I think, as a near-tableau...with little movement...

1) blue-specs goes into second box....he had ALREADY come from the corridor 
either past statue or not
2) then the two men moving....'turn the corner" where statue is....and go into 
next box
3) then a girl....'comes down the hall"....hall  = corridor, right?   she comes 
from the other direction since no mention is made of her
turning a corner ? (where statue is?)

Then things happen....smoking gun but no one hears gunshot....because mask of 
tragedy statue has no ears? silence is total...
OR are someone's ears 'dying' before someone's vision?....girl leaves in 
tears.....fat man follows....out of field of vision = back down hall
the way she came?  

4) man in shadow at end of corridor....fighting men entangled and one holds 
other's head toward the light......(would mean toward
the man who has the light behind him).............Now he flame-throws 
orange....second (crouching) man now half-rises and looks at 

him (man in shadow) .....now this guy collapses.....and his white face looms 
ever closer......(to whom or what???)


 


----- Original Message ----
From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, July 25, 2010 6:26:17 PM
Subject: RE: V2nd, C3: pov in sec. viii


I thought that he was falling from a crouched position, and his head was falling 
eastward (toward the statue).

But what bugs me about my arrangements is, why does the text only mention 
turning by the statue once? 


That fact makes it seem like some of the other people are walking from/to 
somewhere else, presumably out an exit to the west. But if there is a western 
exit, why the statement about the end of the corridor?
                        
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