BtZ42 Sec 3, p 17

[Mark Kohut]

"(8:20 and other mythical hours)"......not in 1st edition of Weisenburger,
don't know about 2nd...BUT

When I was a young tyke, looking thru Sears and a few other catalogs
of America's time of my time, I noticed that all of the wristwatch ads had
the hands set at
20 minutes after eight...visualize, long hand at 120 degrees pointing down,
hour hand at 240 degrees---a visually nicely "balanced" inverted kinda V,
one shortened side arc (as P describes those street lamps early in V.--)
and I asked my dad--who knew everything important, of course---why that was
and he is always saying that the ad folks decided this was the most
visually pleasing
way to look at a watch face---imagine 5 after 12 or 6
thirty!!---so............

that mythical time, easiest on the eyes, created by ad writers.
McLuhanesque part of
P's vision, maybe.
(10:10 was another time used for same reason)

As at least two Plisters have said here and posted about
, P subverts mythic myths, so to be cute --and
 with huge achievements, thereby creates new ones...

It is one reason he is greater than most at least of his contemporaries,
imho.
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