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

[Joseph Tracy]

  The god Horus's eye was injured in a fight with Set and became a  
lesser eye, the moon, as complimented by his solar eye.  Pynchon is  
playing a lot with mirrors/reflections, the difference between  
experience/reality on one hand and on the other the reflection in  
human art,  consciousness of reality which is itself a new reality.   
Horus appears later, but is a recurring image.
On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any takers on that?
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> 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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> "liber enim librum aperit."