GRGR(18): Finding Lisaura

[Henry Musikar]

A-& how about "this is how they meet" and other meetings in GR. I've said it 
before (years ago and perhaps recently) that GR meetings, cute and 
otherwise, are some of my favorite passages: no synthesis without meeting 
and heating.

(An enigmatic shout out to my homegirl.)

>From: Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com>
>To: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: GRGR(18): Finding Lisaura
>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:55:33 -0600
>
>Way back on p. 364, we are told of Slothrop, "As a matter of fact, he is
>also just about to run into his Lisaura"; on the next page, the sentence
>"This is how they meet" introduces a story that isn't about Slothrop
>meeting his Lisaura; it's easy to forget all about it. (I know I have
>frequently done so.)
>
>But hey, what's this? here on p. 393 comes the line, "This is how he
>comes to meet Margherita Erdmann,... his child and his helpless
>Lisaura." Which means you could look at the intervening 30 pages as
>being the story, not of the birth of Rocketman and his adventures in
>Potsdam, but of Slothrop meeting Lisaura -- to me that "This is how they
>meet... This is how he comes to meet her" construction seems like a
>frame designed to give its contents a particular aspect. Seems kinda
>wacky to me that this framed material spans several section divisions
>and some widely disparate material about the Argentines and
>Tchitcherine.
>
>A-and speaking of p. 393, did anyone else find it a bit odd for Slothrop
>to be worried about flab when he wakes up from his Sodium Amytal
>session? Seems like other concerns would be more pressing.
>
>Also -- has anyone got more reference info re: The Minnesinger, and
>Lisaura? I have only vague, unreliable memories from a German class in
>college. Anyone know if Minnesinger is from the same root as Minstrel?
>
>--
>Mortals are immortals, and
>immortals are mortals, the one
>living the other's death and
>dying the other's life.
>
>Heraclitus, quoted by Bertrand Russell
>http://www.readin.com/books/westernphilosophy/
>
>

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