Grasping for V. Group Read P.S.

[Mark Kohut]

Belated connection....Oedipa jarred awake by 3 AM phone call....(more understandable nerve-wrackingness)
P relies on this insight/theme in this period......

And, let's discuss: WTF does "emptiness into waiting presence" mean?....I've just realized
that in the analogy list, the first term is the good term equalling Benny before he turns onto East Main---dog
into wolf---so emptiness is the good term and waiting presence the bad???  Waiting presence of drunken
vomiting sailors, okay, but why 'emptiness" ?

papers due by Monday morning.



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 10:00:40 AM
Subject: Grasping for V. Group Read

is it the sneakers, among other actions that define Benny as schlemihl? A fine Jewish literary
tradition although Benny isn't, right? .........

Struck on p. 2 of perennial edition by how TRP so accents the force of coming upon East Main
street....'abstract Street", a steady theme in V. gives him nightmares.....'sprang on his nerves
like "dog into wolf, light into twilight EMPTINESS INTO WAITING PRESENCE [my caps] 
 and other scary metamorphoses.

Street= city?....city = not a natural--organic?--way to live?....

Light, see ATD, dark and twilight???

P.S. "best technique for jumping thru a plate glass window"....points to Vineland of course. 
one potential berserk.......