from POGUEMAHONE. Did any artist/writer find a more resonant symbol [V] than Pynchon? Only a genius.

[Mark Kohut]

The reader tumbles along with the verse, never more so than when McCabe
describes bombs falling in the World War II movies Dan and Una used to
watch:

entire houses,
whole streets
erased
as the whistling stops
&
V
V
V
down they come
again