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

[Mark Kohut]

Joseph writes:
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:

"The mirror is human kind's most duplicitous invention. When we look into it do we see ourselves or an other? If we see an other, is that other a lie or some complex extension of a truth we don't quite grasp? And when we set down the mirror and imagine ourselves to be one or the other or some combination of both, who have we become? In this special issue of Conjunctions, the very idea of self is tackled in fiction and poetry that investigates everything from innocent misperception to studied deception, delusion to fraud, crazed misdemeanors to premeditated crime.-----Conjunctions 54

> 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."