Give me a V. .....T.S. Eliot defines the use of V.

[Mark Kohut]

"the only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an ‘objective correlative’; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in a sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.” (Selected Essays, [London: Faber and Faber, "

Esp. for TRP's V.: 'a chain of events"...and a set of characteristics?

Work?



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 7:06:29 AM
Subject: Re: Down with more prolegomena! Give me a V. .....

Richard Ryan asks:
Interesting but reference please?

Only in my scholarly dreams do i have everything on file.....I believe it was in one of his letters to Cork Smith in the sixties...those ones his agent sold....

But "So the letter "V" is in
fact a by its very nature a code for something else, something bigger
or other.  The inverted tip of the iceberg."

Yes, I say whether I've invented p's remark or not....


A good Derridean would say the mark (and perhaps the Mark as well) was
fundamentally indeterminate.  In any case, the period appears to make
the letter an initial, or part of an acronym.  So the letter "V" is in
fact a by its very nature a code for something else, something bigger
or other.  The inverted tip of the iceberg.