GR translation: black as a hand in an evening glove

[Michael Bailey]

The hand itself in the glove could be any color, but it’s the black of the
glove that registers when you look at it.

Eager reference engine cranks up:

Is there an allusion to anarchist group, “the Black Hand?” - probably at
most not more than in passing.

Also, a passing allusion to possible changes rung on “clothes make the man”
type of concepts could be tweezed out of this, couldn’t it?

& how the presence of a very dark person might foreshadow the
Schwarzkommando?




Mike Jing and Mark Kohut:

Basic evening gloves are basic black....and his running-mate is black, is
why...probably a much darker West Indian

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:04 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at
gmail.com <https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l>>
wrote:

>* V62.29-32, P64.12-16   two bartenders, a very fair West Indian, slight,
*>* with a mustache, and his running-mate black as a hand in an evening glove,
*>* are moving endlessly in front of the deep, the oceanic mirror that swallows
*>* most of the room into metal shadows
*>>* What is an "evening glove"? And why would a hand in it be black?
*>* --*