BEER Group Read. Bruce Winterslow and Vyrva McElmo

[John Bailey]

Niiiice. I would never have guessed on a surface reading that McElmo
referred to anything other than Sesame Street. And Heikki, you just
banged that out into several more dimensions.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> "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:
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>> Bruce Slow as Winter? and Vyrva, physically slow, 'a West Coast' thing, "not
>> nearly time-obsessed enough".
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>> 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.
>>
>> Mediated seeing. Seeing in stereotypes. Even our 'fraud detective' of some supposed acuity.
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