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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Oops!  Forgot the link to Woody Guthrie's song:

http://www.1913massacre.com/song.html

LK

-----Original Message-----
>From: kelber at mindspring.com
>Sent: Jan 8, 2011 5:42 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: V--2nd, Chapter 13, that last page still....
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>This pops up from a search of 1913.  Not one of Woody's better songs - downright depressing.
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>Doubt Pynchon is thinking of this in his V. period.  He's looking towards Europe in the next chapter, anyway.
>
>Laura
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>-----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..
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>>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.   
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>>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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