<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Visited my local Iceland Spar at my local musuem today. Turned the polarizing of light wheel</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">and saw the images twain. Just sayin'.....</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">yes, as metaphor for both at once, one invisible at a time, is what I most see....<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV class=hr style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; HEIGHT: 0px" readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> P-list <pynchon-l@waste.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:39 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: The Incidences of the phrase "Iceland Spar" in AtD - II<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Bled Welder wrote:<BR>> Oh snap! I like so totally already mentioned the Chummy purchase of the<BR>> pearl right before they entered the center of the earth. Eons ago. Are you<BR>> not reading my
emails? Because I can send them all again you know, and then<BR>> again and again... 8--)<BR>><BR><BR>saw that. enjoyed it. I remember I agreed with it, liked it.<BR><BR>Unfortunately can't quote it, actually would not mind if you did<BR>repost it if you have it handy. I have to go to dinner, but later<BR>tonight I'll try to find it in the archive.<BR><BR>It's even quite possible that your mention inspired my effort to some<BR>degree. Hope that's ok!? I don't think I redundantly retrod any of<BR>the ground that you covered or expressed anything contradictory or<BR>disrespectful of your views - if so I'll publicly retract and/or<BR>ameliorate any such damages to the best of my ability!<BR><BR>my plan is to briefly touch all 15 mentions of Iceland Spar and share<BR>the thoughts they awaken in me, although my interest in the "Pearl"<BR>passage isn't exhausted by its part in that current plan.<BR><BR>I
consider the passage a touchstone, and hope to touch it again on<BR>occasion in a different context as suits the inspiration of the<BR>moment.<BR><BR>...like Doc Emmens, pounding away at his argentaurum, i happily<BR>revisit the text, and, sure, your commentaries (and those of Mark -<BR>who's gotten me to pull AtD off the shelf a lot recently -- et<BR>numerous al) ----- if the metaphorical Iceland Spar is likened to<BR>mind, you're looking through a different crystal of it than I am, and<BR>it's possible I will see the gold and silver better by an acquaintance<BR>with your views...<BR><BR>btw, I am too chicken to take psilo. Tried some of that "legal pot" a<BR>year or two ago and ended up forgetting an overtime shift I'd signed<BR>up for at work. It was a pretty good buzz, but I can't pay that<BR>freight.<BR><BR>maybe when I retire I can have a mushroom garden tho (something else<BR>to hope we survive 2012
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