V-2nd C4 Pre-Operative Reconnaissance

[Dave Monroe]

"Esther met him, oddly enough, through Stencil ..." (V., Ch. 4, Pt. II, p. 104)


"Stencil, pursuing a different trail"

"Different from what?  The trail in question is presumably the one
that begins in Florence in 1899."  (Grant, Companion, p. 64)


"... a rogue's gallery of malformed"

"A rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of
pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for
identification purposes. The term is also used figuratively by
extension for any group of shady characters or the line-up of
'mugshot' photographs that might be displayed in the halls of a
dormitory or workplace."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogues_gallery


"pre-operative reconnaissance"

>From Katrin Amian, Rethinking Postmodernism(s): Charles S. Peirce and
the Pragmatist Negotiations of Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and
Jonathan Safran Foer (New York: Rodopi, 2008), Ch. 2, "Creativity and
Power: Thomas Pynchon's V.," pp. 69-112;

"Schoenmaker's surgical act is ... explicitly cast in terms of a
military and sexual siege, revealing the extent to which Esther's,
like V.'s, objectification is framed by male desires and needs." (p.
97)

http://books.google.com/books?id=L2Xy8dMJdMIC
http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=PMS+41


"running a Wassermann"

"The Wassermann test is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the
bacteriologist August von Wassermann, based on complement-fixation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassermann_test