Grasping for V. Group Read. Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.'

[Mark Kohut]

More on the host's method. The first place to start with any deep reading of Pynchon is
the indispensable pynchon wiki, imho. Look up what you might not know; look up whatever
to see where the associative depth may lead......add something to it. V. needs more annotation especially
in the later chapters when we get there.

Full disclosure: I posted many of the Chapter One entries on the wiki when I plunged into a 
new reading after reading all the later Pynchon works. Another poster, agreed with by an administrator,
thought many posts were too obvious, too simple-minded. That most of this chapter did not need such annotation. To get it was easy enough, even if one just gets some, like navy slang, by context.

I just enjoyed the thorough precision of seeing how P's vision 
worked out in this novel. Treating it as we have the novels from GR on. Seeing
what resonances and associations, if anything, V. has. Connections, associations
ARE often revealed, it seems; yet, some correspondences are of the kute kind surely. 
Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.'

We can all judge. I won't repost some simple definitions and obs from the wiki but do check them out
I suggest. It helps us enter P's mind, I suggest. 
 
I will repost some entries that ought to lead to more meaningful discussion...discussion of meaning.