V--2nd, half-way

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:52 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Ro-ro, doin the back row from those in the know know to it's V-1 to
> His Gravity's Rainbow, sez,

I've wondered why It was so difficult to get into "V.", early on this  
reading I got a clue as to why.
I wondered why Chapter nine would affect me when the rest of the book  
mostly didn't, now I'm getting a clue.

>> I'm not Cabalistically pursuing any numerological meaning in the  
>> number of
>> the page* or concerned with the exact word count that would produce  
>> the
>> exact center of the book. I know some commentators have gone so far  
>> to do
>> such things. I pretty much am looking for the center of the story,  
>> I'm not
>> taking it any further than that.
>
> Further than that?
> Shoot, Ro-ro,
> you ain't even got out the doe,
> and youz ah gonna go,
> on back inside and hang that number on a Freytag's middle of the story
> as if the thang got a beginning middle and teee low ssss?

Naw, I don't look at Pynchon's scrambled breakfasts of plots  
theatrically "Arch-y." I've just noticed that there's something to the  
notion of Pynchon paying attention to such things as what's going on  
in the middle, just not by standard or classical measurement.

> Itz all good, brotha, don't mind us, we just gotta enjoy the ride and
> we are happy just to see you readin that V..

Well, if you're happy, then 'm happy.