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

[Mark Kohut]

Nice..I might throw out:

an ongoing "infinite" divergence from who/what V. was/is?



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To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 4:27:13 PM
Subject: Re: Grasping for V. Group Read: first V. mention; second sighting

A V as in two parallel lines (e.g. railroad tracks) meeting at infinity? 
Suppose you draw a line across the top of the English letter V . What you 
get is, of course, a triangle. Let the bottom angle represent V., Then take 
the top angles as Stencil and Benny (?). Do we have a representation of the 
plot, such as it is? Or of something more interesting? What does infinity 
have to do with it?


From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Saturday, June 12, 2010 1:45 PM
Subject: Grasping for V. Group Read: first V. mention; second sighting


2/3 of the way down page 2, perennial edition:

"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.

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.

V is ugly artificial light in descriptive association here...






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