V. misc.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It's Stencil's estimate, in Chapter 14, I think (don't have book handy).

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2011 4:49 PM
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: V. misc.
>
>How did you determine the date of V's birth?  The way I see it (from
>the novel, not Henry Adams), V evolves over many years, from Victoria
>Wren to the Bad Priest.  If should could be seen having a genesis in
>the novel, I see it as Victoria's first encounter with Stencil's
>father (in Venice, I think).
>
>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Edison's patent for the elec light bulb was granted in 1880, the year V. was
>born...