Cheese Danish #35

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks, Terrance, you did indeed elaborate to some extent at least a
prolegomena to that possible, probabble, even, Pynchon/Heidegger
connection, not to mention a whole lotta other interesting stuff.  Might
I point out that David Farrell Krell also has a book called Lunar
Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction and Thought (Chicago: U of Chicago
P, 1995)?  Well, I just did, so there, but ... Nietzsche, Kafka,
Heidegger, Holderlin, Garcia Marquez, Derrida, Blanchot ... but I've
barely read that chapter of Daimon Life, barely started Contagion, so
...

But was esp. glad to see that James Berger paper ("Cutural Trauma and
the 'Timeless Burst,'" @
http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/pynchon/papers_berger.html), which
manages actually to DO a little something in re: Pynchon with all those
little intutions I've had since rereading Gravity's Rainbow, in re:
Heidegger, Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari, Marcuse, et al.   Again, a
Fake Book can be a Very Useful Item to Have, Italian Wedding or no.  But
that's also why I stressed Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, esp.
that latter "1966 Political Preface," think that, a la HM, TRP might
well be tempering an initial celebration of very 60s indeed notions of
liberation via the libido, the possible dangers of unihibiting
inhibition, et al. (and cf. that Sontag review of Brown's Life Against
Death) ...

But, Kai, "the world is/as a classroom"?  For any one of us here,
elsewhere, I would (and I will) think, though I hardly claim to be much
on the blackboard side of the podium.  Certainly, you're not taking
issue with someone posting lengthy excerpts from obscure, obscurantist
texts, now, are you?  Pot to Kettle: "Black"?  But I'm always interested
in any, well, interesting, and, hey, relevant, even, information I can
get, so ... but, hey, enough about ME.  A friend commented on my
comments in re: V., its title, in re: the sephiroth.  Those points, that
branching, any ideas?