street, Norfolk VA, 1950s.

"Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia."

—the first sentence of Thomas Pynchon's V., set 68 years ago tonight.

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