V. misc.

[Mark Kohut]

She was said to be 33 in 1913....

And I forgot to add THIS from the chapter we are in:
"She cannot be dead, " Stencil said.
"One feels her in the city. " he cried.
"In the city". 
"In the light". It has to do with the light."
"If the soul, " Maijstral ventured, "is light. Is it a presence."



----- Original Message ----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 4:49:51 PM
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...