M&D (q's for the d)

[Tiarnan O'Corrain]

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> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date:          Sun, 4 May 1997 20:37:06 -0400
> Subject:       [M&D] pg. 19 (q's for the dog)
> From:          fibers at juno.com (Matthew B Hoyt)

> On said page, his Thomasness writes:
> 
> "Does the Dog know 'Where the Bee Sucks'?  What is the Integral of One
> over (Book) d (Book)?
> Is he married?"
> 
> The first one completely baffles me.  I don't even have a context for the
> question.

It's the first line of a lyric sung by Ariel (the airy sprite)
in Shakespeare's *The Tempest*
	Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
	In a cowslip's bell I lie;
	There do I couch when owls do cry...
when Prospero promises to free Ariel from service. I
suppose it's relevant in a larger context when the Tempest is 
considered as an allegory for the new world, both
'noble savage'(Ariel) and slave(Caliban).

Tiarnan O'Corrain <stih8005 at bureau.ucc.ie>
^^^^^^^^^^^^