V--2nd, Chapter 13, that last page still....

[kelber at mindspring.com]

This pops up from a search of 1913.  Not one of Woody's better songs - downright depressing.

Doubt Pynchon is thinking of this in his V. period.  He's looking towards Europe in the next chapter, anyway.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jan 8, 2011 4:48 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: V--2nd, Chapter 13, that last page still....
>
>The last six lines.....exchanges between Stencil & Benny..
>
>How quiet, " said Stencil.
>Quiet, It's like the shuttle at 5 PM.---[B]
>No. Nothing at all is happening here.---[S]
>So what year is it. --[B] [No question mark]
>It is 1913, said Stencil.---[WTF?]
>Why not, said Profane.   
>
>next chapter begins in 1913 BUT, as written, Stencil's
>use is an allusion, yes?  That the scene in the park is
>what 1913 was..[?]
>
>What a curious image to describe the sound of the stream in Central Park:
>like a glass chandelier in an unheated wintry drawing room---in which all
>the heat is turned off suddenly and forever.....
>
>Now, take 1913.............and explicate the metaphor........................
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