V---2nd, Chap 16

[alice wellintown]

As always, it is Pynchon's narrative inventions that cheer me through
here. Benny's blacked-out and hung-over remembrancer suffers from both
major forms of Pynchon paranoia; he is paranoid about what might be
blacked-out, he is putting the jig-saw together with paranoia.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As I reread Chap 16 this time, I am hit with Eliot's too-oft cited line
> about ending up where we began knowing the place for the first time...
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> Well, at least ending up at a drinking party just like the opening drinking
> partytime,
> with lots of words 'explaining' things this time.
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> Although the place, Valleta, is very different but as a naval port, not so
> much.....?
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