BtZ42 p. 93 " a long stretch...'

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 10:06:09 CDT 2016


"barbed wire" makes more than a few appearances in Pynchon. It  encodes
real bad shit meanings.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also I can't help but read "barbed wire rings" in a little bit of
> correspondence with Kekulé.
>
> > On Jun 12, 2016, at 6:41 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > "of pipe and barbed wire rings in the wind. The black latticework is
> propped up by longer slanting braces, lances pointing out to sea. [hehe,
> Pynchon points with poetic richness again] An abandoned and mathematical
> look".....
> >
> > Does mathematical here [and some other places in Pynchon, but no
> documentation now] sorta
> > mean, thematically, "singled-up lines" over and over again?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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