Autobiography & a couple of puzzles

[Gillies, Lindsay]

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From: owner-pynchon-l
To: CO27447; SY19058
Cc: pynchon-l
Subject: Re: Autobiography & a couple of puzzles
Date: Saturday, January 20, 1996 1:13PM

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>>How about TPR's Mother Tongue, or at least the tune that was a hit before
>>*your mother* was born, but which your mother should know, because she
>>carries it inside her: Proto-Indo European. Pirate, it seems, was not just
>>poised to receive a message inside a rocket fired from the Frisian 
Islands,
>>in a larger, mythic or recondite sense, he was prepped to receive language
>>itself, with all its structures and "ways of perceiving" coded inside it.
>>Language which frames thought and discourse and constrains (and liberates)
>>the author, made the leep from about the same areas as the rockets. But 
the
>>origin of the tongue as suggested seems to have been situated somewhere in
>>the Kirghiz area. The rocket may have just been following an older more
>>ancient trail of cultural transmission.
>>
>>Jody P.
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>>"Let's all get up and dance to a tune
>> that was a hit before your mother was born
>> Though she was born a long long time ago,
>> your mother should know..." Beatles, YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW
>>
>>
>>..That scrawny cry--It was
>> A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
>> It was part of the colossal sun,
>>
>> Surrounded by its choral rings,
>> Still far away. It was like
>> A new knowledge of reality.
>>
>>     (from Wallace Stevens, NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING 
ITSELF)
>>
>>
>>Dear Jody P.,
>I thought your comment was quite insightful.  Isn't the Kirghiz episode 
also
>where that great scene about someone writing--Kill the Commissioner--on the
>wall, and someone doing it, prompting the narrator to remark--This alphabet
>is really something!--or words to that effect.  That might support your 
idea
>about the K. Light's significance.  But, isn't it: --Let's all get up and
>dance to a song--?  Not --dance to a tune--?
>
>
>john m
*
*John, you're correct. Thanks, Jody.
*
*p.s.: What's the song that follows "Your Mother Should Know" on that album?
*I think that's the one we are all invited to get up and dance to (dance may
*be a more ancient form of communication than speach)... Also, it occurs to
*me that Desmond, at the end of VINELAND, has finally made it back from a
*rather long and circuitous sojourn on BLUEJAY WAY.

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I remember first verse "dance to a tune" then further in "lift up your 
hearts and sing me a song that was a hit..." etc.
Immediately after Your Mother fades, its "I am he as you are he..." etc.