V-2 - temporary interregnum

[Michael Bailey]

one is glad that you are well and occupied gainfully...

was thinking about an embedded statement in our of your posts to the
effect that Stencil is the narrator...

if a novel is a state of the world address from an unacknowledged
legislator (in addition to being a large enough sample of language for
talented explicators to find numerous threads of commentary on various
themes, and even a rich enough trove of references for amateurs and
crackpots such as myself to have rather a lot of fun with) - then
Stencil could very well be the ex cathedra voice of such a personage

to wit, Stencil is in his search for V. sublimating the search for a
spouse that Lindsey Noseworth engages in...

and comes to grips with the world, which is all that is the case...

(in the knowledge that this constitutes grace) so that the Darwinian
imperative surfaces in Chapter 9, and impinges on Mondaugen's
consciousness - but there's an equal and opposite force exerted by his
sferics upon Weissmann, although neither character is exactly
"converted" at least they are "exposed"

anyway, I'm sure we all have been touched and moved by Robin's posts -
I know I have - and feel confident that he will bring the rest of its
message via catapult post in its proper time...


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Highya kids, this is Ralph Iceberg with the world's biggest dealership, west
> of Balbec. Let's just take a taste of this fabulous Yucatan Blue, scored for
> you by froggy little native boys in their tight leather aprons by the sea,
> yes, crimson sometimes like fire . . .
>
> Right now, around 4:30 in the A.M, I'm getting ready to go to the IRS
> facility on Butler to open incoming mail. The big dump of annual returns
> centers on April 15 but there is also a "bubble" centered on October 15, the
> end of the six-month extension. Yesterday was confused enough and busy
> enough that I was unable time-wise to come up with a real post, I'm not sure
> if today will be the same. At the rate we're going, I'm sure I'll be back to
> my usual level of stagnant unemployment allowing me time to further examine
> Mondaugen's Story.
>
> In fact, I received a number of articles from Dr. Krafft yesterday that
> directly relate to the development of Chapter nine and I intend to
> incorporate that material into our discussion of "V." "Fast Learner: The
> Typescript of Pynchon’s V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin" and "From
> the Ground Up: The Evolution of the South-West Africa Chapter in Pynchon’s
> V.", both by Luc Herman and John M. Krafft, demonstrate what I've long
> suspected --- that "Mondaugen's Story" was both the last chapter to be
> written in "V." and is also the most extensively revised chapter in "V."
> Furthermore, I also now have the Adrian Wisnicki article "A Trove of New
> Works By Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc News Service Rediscovered," a Very
> interesting article concerning Pynchon's writing for Boeing from 1960 to
> 1962.
>
> So meanwhile, mingle, chips and dips, maybe have a "safety meeting" or maybe
> oil yourself up for the Greco-Roman wrestling pit over in the back 40. Our
> program ought to be resuming in a day or two.
>
> Anybody want a pony ride?
>
>



-- 
- "Only thing that makes life a gain
is a southbound ticket on a southbound train"
- (what I have heard every time till I looked it up today)

Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again
Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train - Bob Dylan, "Freight Train Blues"