V--2nd how about that ending, eh?

[Mark Kohut]

"it's always night or we wouldn't need the light"  ?



----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; braden.andrews at gmail.com
Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 4:41:39 PM
Subject: Re: V--2nd how about that ending, eh?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Presently, sudden and in silence, all illumination in Valletta, houselight 
and
> streetlight, was extinguished. Profane and Brenda ["whom he'd met yesterday"]
> continued to run through the abruptly absolute night, momentum alone carrying
> them toward the edge of Malta, and the Mediterranean beyond."

I've long wondered waht exactly is happening here.  Or, @ any rate,
what happens next ...