PHONE TRANSCRIPT

DANIEL JAMES – UNKNOWN CALLER – V514

V: You’re running out of time, Daniel.

DJ: Who is this?

V: I know you are, but what am I?

DJ: I’m coming for you, Maas. I haven’t spent the last two years chasing you to just give up.

V: Two years? You think this book began when you took that phone call? [LAUGHTER] It started when you were born. This is what you were created for, paper man!

DJ: What do you mean? What are you talking about?

V: Wake up, Daniel. Wake up.

END

Note

514. V – the letter Daniel assigns to the unknown caller – is also famously the title of Thomas Pynchon’s debut novel, which concerns, in part, the quest to discover the identity of V, who turns up in a variety of names and guises throughout the narrative, acting as a kind of unifying device, but ultimately remaining forever elusive – Anonymous.