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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon
Message-ID: <1747@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 17:37:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 17:37:23 1986
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In article <1359@decwrl.DEC.COM> boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) writes:
>
...  whereas Pynchon's book's
>title is, as I understand it (I haven't read it), pronounced "five"
>(and incidentally, the book title is "V.", not "V".).
>
>--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)
>


"Five" is quite unlikely.  The book is full of characters whose name begins
with the letter 'V', and one mysterious figure often referred to just as
V.  The number five, on the other hand, has no special bearing on what goes
on in the book.  (He may well employ it as a pun somewhere, of course.)
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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