Memory failure

[glthompson]

Thomas, I don't know if this is what you are thinking of, but it's what
reverberated for me when reading your query. It's _GR_, though, not _49_:

    It's nothing he can see or lay hands on--sudden gases, a violence upon the
air and no trace afterward . . . a Word, spoken with no warning into your ear,
and then silence forever. Beyond its invisibility, beyond hammerfall and
doomcrack, here is its real horror, mocking, promising him death with German
and precise confidence, laughing down all of Tantivy's quiet decencies . . .
no, no bullet with fins, Ace . . . not the Word, the one Word that rips apart
the day. . . .  (V 25)

Interesting cross-post with Terrence's hilarious Bloomorrhetic stuff--"He
declares that modern short stories are either Chekhovian or Borgesian, the
first gratifying
"our hunger for reality," the second teaching us "how ravenous we still are for
what is beyond supposed reality." There seem to be a lot of these moments that
lead up to the point of Enlightenment, a la Tchitcherine, and then pull back.

Thomas Colin wrote:

>   Dear all,
> I'm doing a little study on the wide array of screams and yells and bellows
> and belches in P's texts, and I can remember (oh! very clearly)"the cry (or
> is it a scream) that abolishes the night." It's just that I can't seem to
> find it (thought it was in the epileptic scream passage in CL49 but it's
> not). So where? I'm even starting to think it could be not in Pynchon but
> somewhere else, or perhaps I just made it upYAHHHHHHHGH!
> Any help welcome,
> Thanks.
> "Gojiro no Chimpiro" Tom.
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