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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/covers/v_cvr.html

The Picador edition is the only one that doesn't add the ".".

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