VV(11): A True Windup Boy ...

[Dave Monroe]

I like this hypothesis very much, very good.  Does
that make both Benny Profane and Tyrone Slothrop
libidinally conditioned to the point of being nigh
unto mechanically programmed?  Note consternation
about "theories of history," causality, in both cases.
 And I should have mentioned that "at" jbor points
out, much pencil there in my V. ...

Reminds me--Vassegh, Vostok, Vheissu ... makes me
wonder, are there actually an unusual number of "V"s
in V.?  Even just counting proper names?  Or do tehy
siomply stand out because that's the title, we're all
set up to look for them, we have Stencil fils egging
us on, and so forth ...

And you're right, kai, I should have at least included
Reich, who I know little about, but enough to wonder
if he isn't worth further investigation, as I think
Marcuse has proven to be.  Brown we know about, of
course.  But, yeah, I really should have come up with
deleuze and Guattari there as well, thanks ...

And, hey, David, again, did not intend to insult
anyone, nor to claim any better hygiene than anyone,
either.  Though I've spent the last day or so as if I
was living in The Andromeda Strain, but ... but that's
my favorite kind of humor, the kind that doesn't quite
make sense if you try to work it out ...

Anyway, hope to finish up some business on Section i
of Chapter 8, post some notes on Section ii, if not
tonight (I'll be on the road back home shortly), then
tomorrow.  A bit of an interruption, but all will sort
itself out with or without me, so ...

In the meantime, picked up ...

Liu, Catherine.  Copying Machines: Taking Notes
   for the Automaton.  Mpls: U of Minn P, 2000.

Chapter 4, "Getting Ahead with Machines? The Cases of
Jacques Vaucanson and Therese des Hayes" opens with a
discussion of von Kaempelen's Turkish Chess Player in
Walter Bejnamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of
History"--something for everybody, then ...

And I also scored a Boris Vian CD (French Mercury is
rereleasing all sorts of stuff on CD these days). 
Includes that "Algerian protest song" or whatever
Paola teaches the Whole Sick Crew (pp. 18-9).  It's
"Les Deserteur," does include the lyrics Pynchon
reproduces, see also J. Kerry Grant's annotation
thereupon in his A Companion to V. ...

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
> > Howdy
> > 
> > Perhaps this iz why he doesn't seem to recognize
> Rachel at first --
> > he
> > is responding as a mechanism to pre-programmed
> input stimuli that are
> > all object and no subject. I've done much the same
> thing myself, on
> > occasion.
> > 
> > Back to the lurk pool...
> > Mark



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