M&D pg. 325

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the Robot Vegetable wrote:
> 
> ray says:
> 
> ... most helpful idea so far was the one
> about cinematic sliding ie a storyteller in a movie begins a tale and we
> (the audience) hear first his voice, then see what he's describing (to
> his voiceover), then his voice drops away and we're there. if anyone can
> pull this off (outside of stephen wright, NOT the comic), it's pynchon.
> 
>     The segues are incredible masterful!  This one really charmed me:
> 
>     If Mason's elaborate Tales are a way for him to be true to the
> sorrows of his own history (the Rev^d Cherrycoke presently resumes),
> a way of keeping them safe, and never betraying them, in particular
> those belonging to Rebekah,-- then Dixon's Tales, the Emersoniana,
> the Ghosts of Raby, seem to rise from simple practical matiness.
> Who, if not Mason, at any given moment, needs cheering? A cheerful
> Party-Chief means a cheerful party.
>     "Directly before the Falmouth Packet sail'd," he begings, one
> night as they wait for a Star, "William Emerson presented me with
> a small Mysterious Package..."
> 
>         [pgs 316-317]
> 
>     We move from Pynchon's voice through The Rev^d's and into
> hearing Dixon speak.  The voice is clear, the changes clear and
> yet seemless.  I stand up and yell Huzzah!
>     And, gee, (rushes back to the subject line to up the ante,
>     This Mysterious Package,  I suspect, is my great great great
> etc grandfather.  The Clockwork Vegetable, indeed!
>     Back to that passage above, I didn't notice first time through,
> but the use of (...Rev^d C...resumes),  ->  (), instead of (,) is
> interesting.
>     I took the Book to Lunch.  Laughs flew out and all around stared.
> One strained almost imperceptively to see the Name of the Book.  The
> meal was delicious,  I think.
> 
>         veg
beautiful passage, truly masterful--how can one be wholy there for the
sandwich under masticational consideration (at least ostensibly) when tp
waxes so smashingly?
ray