grgr (34): der regenbogen der schwerkraft

[Stacy Borah]

Amen, one and all.


>From: "Can't Wait" <yayforgod at yahoo.com>
>To: Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>, 
>pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: grgr (34): der regenbogen der schwerkraft
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:57:44 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>This post of Nick's is what I've been waiting for: a post not so much
>About some part of the Rainbow--although this post also does
>something original to this group in that it actually attempts to
>summarize the book, to Say something about its totality--but a post
>in the SPIRIT of the Rainbow, and I think it was exceptionally well
>executed.  To me, to speak, to write in the Spirit of the Rainbow is
>infitinely more valuable than any type and amount of dense
>theoretical interpretizing.  The holocaust's role in the Rainbow is
>nothing compared to the spirit with which its role was sewn in,
>however great or small that may be.  Pynchon is a stylist above all,
>and to be able to reach such stylistic virtuosity, in his spirit, is
>the essence of reading him.
>
>God Bless You, Herr Nick.
>
>m
>
>
>
>--- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  ... summer's almost gone, & a new tide on the way ... some few
> > unelaborated
> > remarks, then it'll be enough ... sloth' psycho-spiritual
> > dearmorment still
> > strikes me as the novel's most exiting story ... through his
> > glowing "absence"
> > we may learn to  r e a l i z e  the fullness of being ... to me
> > gravity's
> > rainbow actually i s the book artaud wanted to write: --- confusing
> > the people,
> > like an open door leading them there where to go they'd have never
> > agreed...a
> > door simply connected with reality ... (cf. "l'ombilic des limbes",
> > 1925) ...
> > german sound samples in gr: must sound quite different when you're
> > no native
> > speaker, i guess ... my assumption is that it somehow, in a gloomy
> > 'continental
> > way or so, must sound 'cooler' to us-americans ... in the beginning
> > of the
> > twentythird & final chapter of "blood meridian" it all of sudden
> > sez "sie müssen
> > schlafen aber ich muss tanzen" ... they have to sleep but i have to
> > dance ...
> > not much german philosophy in gr, which, by pleading for a somehow
> > psycho-historical perspective, speaks out against 'economic
> > reductionism' in
> > gestalt of karl heinrich marx ... leibniz' mathematics & the
> > economics of
> > walther rathenau (- actually not their philosophies) play their
> > part ... &, like
> > in m&d, prussian army-organization ... but - hey terrance! - i must
> > have missed
> > the parts on "kant and his followers", no matter whether you meant
> > (- never you
> > answered that one) the "idealists" or the "neo-kantians" ... a-and,
> > of course,
> > synthetic drugs ... a toast to the german pharmacologist (- too
> > lazy to look
> > them up now) who developed cocaine, horse & xtc ... but that's not
> > the way gr
> > puts it ... even acid seems to be dissed as synthetic
> > death-orientated drug ...
> > in opposite to it: mother nature's 'shrooms [- new season: check it
> > out!] & weed
> > ... but as trp's enthusiastic mdma-statement shows (--- "... you
> > see everything
> > with total clarity ... you have reached a state which the ancients
> > have called
> > nirvana, all seeing bliss", cf. bruce eisner: ecstasy. the mdma
> > story, p. 137),
> > we should differentiate between the drug taste of the user trp and
> > gr's "german
> > death drugs" motif construction, which fits into the novel's
> > constellation quite
> > well ... looking longer on larger areas of heath, "growing in all
> > directions",
> > one can experience the strange, 'hyper-realistic' complementaryness
> > of green &
> > magenta ... out of the stereo streams "two against nature", now a
> > stanza that
> > could be written on gottfried & weissmann: "two against nature
> > don't you
> > know/who's gonna grok the shape of things to go/two against nature
> > make them
> > groan/who's gonna break the shape of things unknown" ... right
> > sweetie, that's
> > not something trp has "put into the text", but - know what? - i the
> > fuck don't
> > care ... neither does the man who encourages - especially in gr's
> > fourth part -
> > such an amplifying reading ... some time ago i saw a tv-docu on the
> > zeppelin
> > airship hindenburg (- eintausenddreihundertzwanzig pferdestärken) &
> > its
> > lakehurst burning catastrophe on 5/6/37 ... two day before
> > pynchon's birth not
> > far away, i thought while watching: must still have been the talk
> > of the town
> > when he entered this world, german air technology crashing down
> > from above ...
> > --- could this have been some kinda 'unconscious motivation' to
> > write gravity's
> > rainbow? (--- this, of course, only makes sense, if trp was not, as
> > naumann -
> > somehow joking? - suggested recently in that radio show, born some
> > years later)
> > ... actually we don't know whether gottfried & bianca do really die
> > in the
> > novel (- event-ually they will be saved) ... the final rocket start
> > might
> > also be a fantasy blicero & gottfried share while enacting the
> > skrying of lot 49
> > ... the volkswagen is now over downtown l.a. where the stream of
> > traffic ...
> > takes me away ... a reference to "nazi-fordism" & - somehow like
> > karl bopp in
> > vineland - signifying the presence of nazi-germany in post war
> > america ...
> > actually a green volkswagen, my parents had from about the time i
> > was born (-
> > same year as poppy z. brite & boris becker) till the early 70s, was
> > the first
> > car i was regulary been driven in ... no concrete memory but some
> > washed-out
> > color photographies from 1969: young family with snow & small car
> > ... & now,
> > while the rain outside keeps falling on the meadows, slick dick and
> > the
> > volkswagens get into "i want to kiss your feet" ...
> >
> >  i dedicate this grgr (34) to the memory of rolf dieter brinkmann
> > (1940-1975),
> >  writer, collage-artist & trp's first strong reader in germany ...
> > the following
> >  is m.o.p.a.t from the collage book "schnitte" (- cuts), which was
> > composed in
> >  the year gr got published:
> >                                 ":i had only been 33 years on
> >                                  this planet & groped myself
> >                                  through the phantom-show : :/
> >
> >                              now i was in husum/northern germany
> > 1972
> >                              a hotel room with color-photo view oo
> >                              zy wet dock & 1972 april, may:
> >                              olevq no romano, lazium 1973 april,
> > may ( :&)
> >                              thin single trees against the light
> > blue
> >                              morning light on the altitude level
> > around
> >                              & saw:who am i/ :me, the northern
> > german:
> >                              in the last th3rd of the 20th century
> > but
> >                              against a world which possessed for
> > more than 3
> >                              million years primate's life: had:
> > offices
> >                              &pictures, moulded newsstands at
> > road's
> >                              ends &, stuttering,the world is
> > different/ :now"
> >
> >
> >                                            p-list, was geht ab?
> >
> >  hamburg naughty, zwotausend: kfl
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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