Re-reading (was re: Mr. Weierman's post)

[Eslacaja at aol.com]

In a message dated 97-05-06 17:27:07 EDT, you write:

<< What is it about music and prose narrative which makes people listen to a
 particular album/cd/tape over and over yet think that it's a bit senseless
 to re-read a novel?  A difference between the "viscerality" of music and
 the "intellectuality" of reading?   >>

listening to music right now.  cinematic effect of writing and listening to
music,
riding in an airplane, sitting in the bathroom.  pynchon's best stuff, the
passages of shit like: "Growing older, blacker, deeper, in layers of
perpetual night . . . . Earth's excrement, purged out for the ennoblement of
shining steel [,]" make me want to take my book, walkman and bowel movement
into the gently
roaring, gently lit airplane toilet. [GR p.166]  to read again and again, to
hit the repeat on my mini-disc.  one more time.  let me catch that.  it's
mostly the timing, i guess.

what's the word?  synesthasia?  to write cinematically is what?  to pull
back, pan away, come in from flying above, into houses and dreams?  cinematic
beyond that, i'm thinking.  i'm thinking we re-read for that light-headed
feeling of  motion  -- we hear music, feel the belly of the flying fortress
rumble and vibrate.  gr did that to me a number of times, sitting in the
school library -- moved, something massive and warm gently insistently
shifting down an inexorable path -- getting darker, black fate of the
palimpsest, wiped away.  i headed to the inviting, silent bathroom, hushed by
the building's massive, piping ventilation system.

does anyone understand what i'm talking about?  i'm in a bit of a mood here.

dT if you got em
--ash