Back to V., MB's structure post cont.

[Robin Landseadel]

I think the Universal Binding Ingredient, the one that did not /could  
not sink in [for me] previously is Vheissu.

In every Pynchon tale, there is The Great Lost Place. Against the Day  
reaches for a different Vheissu, something akin to  Shangri-La.  
Inherent Vice points to the recent past, a pre-Manson L.A. Mason &  
Dixon points to that place called America before the Mason-Dixon line  
was drawn, the one that might have been if only . . .

I'm seeing a Lot of what is to become "Against the Day" in "V."

Seems like a compare and contrast will prove fruitful.

On Sep 2, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I cannot hold V. in my head along the lines of the structure back- 
> and-forth
> postings. So, I dunno nothing re that.
>
> But I do keep thinking of this re this read: I felt the nose job  
> chapter was
> like a separate set piece. Then someone
> else felt another chapter was a separate set piece. That, too,  
> seemed possible
> to me.........then I o'erleaped (maybe)
> mentally to thinking many are set pieces.....and then I think I  
> remember some
> scholar, maybe the guy who wrote
> Understanding Pynchon or Tony Tanner hisself write that THAT was  
> part of P's
> point...............
>
> That is, we try to make all the chapters cohere cuase that is what  
> we do with
> fiction but TRP---is this another postmodern
> touchstone?---subverts that.  They, therefore history leading to the  
> present,
> don't cohere?
>
>
>
> Also Misc. I am reminded from Shakespeare that Venus had Mars as her  
> lover......
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