Down with more prolegomena! Give me a V. .....

[Mark Kohut]

Ash Wednesday's part V is not V. [V period] as it is in The Wasteland. Most uses of the V Roman Numeral are periodless, although of course I
have not done much of a search.

And because The Waste Land is about.....England/Europe/ The Western World thru Eliot's vision...."decay of eastern Europe"....
P's V. seems to be about America/The Western World similarly. (We will read of the decky-dance in V.)

BUT, It does seem a thin thread....except that Eliot's themes did influence P's mind. If just a kute korrespondence, then give me an essay
on Eliot & Pynchon's common early themes with no V. cross references....



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 9:13:09 PM
Subject: Re: Down with more prolegomena! Give me a V. .....

>
> Second, when I reread" The Waste Land" recently, Eliot a deep influence on TRP, I noticed that the last section, section the fifth was "V."..titled 'What the Thunder Said".   Coincidence or another hidden resonance?
> V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
> In the first part of Part V three themes are employed: the journey to Emmaus, the approach to the Chapel Perilous (see Miss Weston's book), and the present decay of eastern Europe.


WHy not Ash Wednesday Part V. or another poem?