Cheese Danish #35

[Dave Monroe]

... howzabout that election there, hey?  I voted for Tilden, but I fear
those disputed electoral returns will be handed underhandedly to Hayes.
Had it not been for Cooper and his Greenback party ...

Anyway ...

First off, having found an old(er) Harper ed. of V., I now realize that
the pagination for the most recent ed., the "Perennial Classics" on, is
different than, say, the "Perennial Library" ed.  Not to mention the
Bantam ... but a thousand pardons for any confusion I might have caused
(at least in terms of pagination--otherwise ...).  Will go back to the
"Perennial Library" pagination ...

Second, Terrence, do feel free to elaborate what you might think the
relevance of Heidegger to Pynchon might be.  I obviously think there's a
connection, but it's an intuition at best.  That "lifedeath" thing,
first off, and the critique of Nietzsche (at least as elaborated by
Krell), but, I must admit, my Heidegger is tenuous.  Have, however, been
thinking about Mondaugen ("moon-eyes"?) and Heidegger's "The Age of the
World Picture."  That point of view thing, the world as pictured from,
say, the moon ...

By the way, did finally get to see Paragraph 175, as well as a screening
of Triumph of the Will.  Next up: The Kindertransport ...

But the reason I'm writing is, having spent no small amount of time with
yr Pop Art paintings of late (even got to meet James Rosenquist, who
would serve well as an illustrator for Gravity's Rainbow, cf. his F-111,
signed a book for me an' ev'rything), sorry if I'm skipping ahead, but,
Slab, his cheese danishes (p. 282, i.e., V.X.i), can't help but think of
Wayne Thiebaud and his various lusciously painted pastries ...

For Thiebaud, see, e.g.:
http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Thiebaud_W/SaladsSD_SSI.html

For Rosenquist, F-111, see:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_7.11.f111.html
http://imv.aau.dk/~jfogde/Coupland/f111.html

Rosenquist, by the way, has a nifty painting of the impending decimation
of that fabled lily pond at Giverny (ibid.) by an incoming meteorite ...