Remedios Varo

[Mark Kohut]

For some newbies to the list, know that a painting by
this female artist is alluded to and used thematically in The Crying of
Lot 49.

 [just occurred: does Pynchon ever 'allude' without
thematic meaning? Even Shakespeare seems to sometimes.]

I went through the National Museum of Women in the Arts in
Wash, D.C. yesterday, which has two of her pictures in the permanent
collection. Both of them---no,I did not take notes but should have---
are Pynchonian or Escher-like in playing with physics and metaphysical
concepts within the painting; as the painting
....one is 'on space and time' via a kind of lens
look within the regular frame.....

One can see, along with the 'surreal' elements, Pynchon's youthful
resonance with.
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