If The Crying Lot of 49 has Torquato Tasso, what does V. have? I read somewhere (I wish I could remember where) that Pynchon admitted to have 'tried something' with both Lot 49 and V. that nobody had exactly caught on to and that he abandoned with later novels—hence my suspicion. pic related

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Anonymous Mon Sep 16 00:54:17 2013 No.4117370 [Reply] [Original]

If The Crying Lot of 49 has Torquato Tasso, what does V. have?

I read somewhere (I wish I could remember where) that Pynchon admitted to have 'tried something' with both Lot 49 and V. that nobody had exactly caught on to and that he abandoned with later novels—hence my suspicion.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 00:58:15 2013 No.4117378 Some dude looked up Torquato Tasso on Google Translate, and this board has been abuzz with armchair codecrackers since. >Pynchon admitted Nice try. It's not true.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 01:02:16 2013 No.4117389 >>4117378 I must admit that I too am sceptical, but regardless, it is a brilliant scheme. If it is entirely coincidence, perhaps even better. Well then, in general, how do we go about interpreting and analysing V.? Lot 49 was a lot simpler imo

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 01:08:51 2013 No.4117399 >>4117370 >If The Crying Lot of 49 has Torquato Tasso wat

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 02:09:57 2013 No.4117513

>>4117399
http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S667543
Ctrl+F Torquato Tasso

Suppoesdly he is the 'answer' to Lot 49, which is like a grand riddle. He was a mad artist or something, his name means 'turned badger' (i.e. like Trystero, the dead badger, as Thurn and Taxis are tower-badger), Oedipa's madness is artistic paranoia, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 02:15:57 2013 No.4117519 Go to bed, Pinecone. No one will care about you after you're dead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 04:44:24 2013 No.4117644 >>4117519 Flattered But really. V. is incredible and interesting and fertile ground for interpretation. Sophisticated discussion pls /lit/ pls

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