Invisibility

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 24 08:45:49 CDT 2001


Aqua Lung, my friend, don't start away uneasy ...

--- Aqua Lung <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> It seems only yesterday, I was thinking that Pynchon
> has an
> objective perspective, like Joyce and Shakespeare. 
> That his
> method is agonistic paradoxical. His reality is
> substrative
> (the living critter, earth mind, Jung has an essay)
> and his
> principles are elemental, like Freud's and
> Shakespeare's.   
> 
> Maybe I was insane at the time, but I was hanging in
> Parks
> again, the messengers with their stripped down
> roads,
> smoking a joint and drinking some jim jones mixture,
> later,
> I met Melville and Whitman, what a smell the body
> can
> produce. 
> 
> "The artist, like the God of the creation, remains
> within or
> behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible,
> refined
> out of existence, indifferent, paring his
> fingernails."
> 
> 
>                               "I am the boy
>                               That can enjoy
>                                Invisibility"
> 
> 
> "And Olivet's breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye."
>                   
> PS It's cold here as well, Dave, well, the water
> that is,
> and
> my aqua man has no arms and  only thighs. Cold
> shoulders
> make for a stiffening swim in
> the "The snotgreen sea. The scratumtightening sea."


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