My Wedding Reception

Shortly after I met my wife-to-be, Mary Ann Tharaldson, she showed me two first edition books signed by her lover, Thomas Pynchon. I tried to read Gravity’s Rainbow, and V, but soon abandoned them. In researching Pynchon’s connections to Jazz, I discovered a character in V, called Vera Meroving. There is a wiki-Pynchon that says this about Vera, and other characters whose name starts with a V, which is a letter Dan Brown made famous in his Da Vinci Code. There is a bad priest named in V that was written in 1963 long before Holy Blood, Holy Grail made it on the scene. Here is another portal into the Labyrinth.

“V./Victoria Wren/Vheissu/Vera Meroving/Veronica Manganese/Valletta/The Bad Priest is the titular character and a mysterious woman who appears in several incarnations throughout the novel.”

The only thing Mary Ann would tell me about Thomas, whom she lived in Mexico with for…