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

[Ian Livingston]

There is also the matter of Mercury as the messenger, and Mercurius as
the agent of alchemical transformation. That V on page 2 points east,
toward Malta.

Then, too, I wonder about the artificial light thing. I've been sort
of toying with an idea of the solar light of the Celtic Heaven (The
White Goddess, 98) versus the lunar, captive light of imperfect human
knowledge.

Any takers on that?

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 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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