Grasping for V. Group Read: first V. mention; second sighting

[Joseph Tracy]

The war is over but the discord of class war goes on, seamen, semen  
pissing in the Packard Patrician. Who is to be the screwer, who the  
screwee?; a contest as old as Horus and Set . A profane scene  
reminiscent of Dante before his journey,  a world of false fire,  
artificial light, bars and fighting for no reason. Is there starlight  
out there in the east, where the dark is real, beyond the bars?
So he drove out the man ; and he placed  at the east  of the garden  
of Eden  Cherubims, and a flaming sword  which turned every way , to  
keep  the way of the tree of life.

On Jun 12, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 2/3 of the way down page 2, perennial edition:
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> "overhead, turning everybody's face green and ugly, shone mercury- 
> vapor
> lamps, receding in an asymmetric V to the east where it's dark and  
> there
> are no more bars."   That V is not accidental, of course.
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> I ask you to remember street lamps in AtD and, I ask you to remember
> receding V mercury-vapor lamps when we get to V and her age later  
> in the book.
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> V is ugly artificial light in descriptive association here...
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