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

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Fri Jun 11 11:53:02 CDT 2010


On Jun 11, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Richard Ryan wrote:

> It's interesting that those lines of perspective converge as they
> recede.  Some sort of phenomenological metaphor there....
>
> Surely some Lister has already observed that, in its role as the 22nd
> letter of the alphabet, "V" may intend a playful allusion to Joseph
> Heller's 1961 masterpiece.

Or maybe the twenty-two cards [including Joker/Fool] of the major  
arcana?




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