[Fwd: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1330]

[David Morris]

Mr. Dedalus,

What with our near-dead GRGR, you'd better smirk when asking for specific 
_Vineland_ interaction.  ;)

I've heard tell that a virulent spore transfered by the spit of _Peyote 
Incas Chewing Extraodinairy Suculents_ infects all the pages of Vineland.  
Burning a few pages in the desert will release these new 'shrooms to find 
hosts in numerous tasty cacti.  The jackpot is the 
Peyote-Psilo-'Shroom-Zoom!  The flood is gentle, at first, but as it speeds 
up an organic Onerine gene-splice lifts you up to Lyle Bland's level. Then 
"Gentle" rules all experience.  Gentle Earthquakes.  Gentle Barfing. Gentle 
Brain-Bashing.  Distance is a soothing balm.

But the above is reserved knowledge.  Off-Off-List, for the truly 
"Literate."  Consider yourself Elect.

Doctor Morgus (the Magnificent)


>From: Dedalus
>
>Actually, a response to my _Vineland_ question would be kinda nice.  : )
>
>What are your interpretations of the Dream of the Gentle Flood (256)?  
>Could the Gentle Flood represent the Tube (with Frenesi the dreamer 
>soothingly watching the scene before her, aware of the time-lapse and 
>"wonderful song" throughout)?  Does it represent the American Dream (with 
>it's sense of false security and ultimate loss)? It's such an enigmatic 
>passage, like Melville's "Try-Works" chapter in _Moby-Dick_, that it seems 
>to defy any solid interpretation for this reader (of course, it coulda just 
>been the wine I was drinking). What do you make of it?
>
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