Grasping for V. Group Read; apochier

[Mark Kohut]

A line not a range.....a narrowing......(some of TRP's meanings of 'single up all lines".).......spinning like waiting......Benny in 1955:
"One year of those times [Fifties] was much like another...there was a lot of aimlessness going around". Introduction to Slow Learner, p.14



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From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 10:45:06 PM
Subject: Re: Grasping for V. Group Read; apochier

When the yo-yo's at it's farthest point from the hand, the line is, in effect, singled.  "Single up the lines" starts ATD and the phrase, learned in Pynchon' navy days, no doubt, is also used in Chapter One of V. (or should the punctuation be V..?)

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 10, 2010 10:28 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Grasping for V. Group Read; apochier
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>My way of hosting, just fyi: I will risk some reading(s)....Call me out; call me irresponsible; engage, argue with me; call me occasionally right.?
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>The first V shape is actually the title of Chapter 1. With the V-shape ending where the apochier is: point furthest away from the yo-yo hand. 
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>Here is Prof Krafft (of the plist) defining apocheir: 
>by JM Krafft - 2007 - Related articles
>"Apocheir" derives from Greek and means "the point farthest from the hand"; it refers to the motif of the yo-yo associated with Profane. ...
>muse.jhu.edu/journals/texas_studies_in...and.../49.1herman.html- Similar
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>"If you look from the side of at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest away from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir."
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>Two reflections: 1) Another of P's novels that begins with an allusion against the sky, maybe? If you do not think this ob works, wait until I do the first line!
>2) In one of his letters--to Hollander, I believe---P said something like: Hey, my meaning is all there on the page. ( We know this is true and not true at once
>overall      but taking this on its face, I want to ask how much  V. as end of yo-yo hand resonates as meaning?.....the analogy comes up again in V..... V juts at straight angles from an apocheir.......sharp angles, we come to know from GR and ATD, at least,  aren't positive in TRP's vision. Operative here? 
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