BEER Group Read. Bruce Winterslow and Vyrva McElmo

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

"Virva" is a Finnish female first name. The name comes from "virvatuli",
"will o' the wisp". And, as Vyrva's last name may refer to St. Elmo's
fire, and Kugelblitz is introduced on the previous page...

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Bruce Slow as Winter? and Vyrva, physically slow, 'a West Coast' thing, "not
> nearly time-obsessed enough".

> Then Pynchon jumps back in time---the looseness, the looseness; "he can do it anytime"-- to "before [Maxine and Vyrva] got to know each other"
> when Maxine saw her as a California type who must surely drink herbal tea.
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> Mediated seeing. Seeing in stereotypes. Even our 'fraud detective' of some supposed acuity.
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