Profit & Loss

[Swing Hammerswing]

>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Profit & Loss
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Howdy
>
>Yes, I'm afraid so. Remember, it isn't "Noah's Great Rainbow" that
>arches over all here, it is the dead parabola of Gravity.  Ashes arch
>to ashes; dust arches to dust; helpless bounded conciousnesses think
>and feel between, making the best of it, comforted (or not) by wishful
>thinking about an afterlife.

Where you at? Gravity's Rainbow right? Where is it that
Noah's Rainbow is not? And what dead parabola? That's the Rocket
and not the Rainbow right? Like the Rainbow is not the Dream of the
Kabbalists man. No man, it's not the white bomb cock in the clouds,  it's 
the great colorful cock curving
endlessly, no delta teees brother, the circle of life, and what is the
cause of this Iching and bitching movement, almost Heraclitian there Kurt 
Eyes of the Moon, but it's change and unchange, conflict sustained by the 
pre-literate mother of the Logos, Gravity. Yeah,
no need to wait for the second coming, it's always been ever shall be
messianic (Pynchon, 590). Slothrop is drawn into the Earth cause he can't 
let her go. No not the girls, he nver even looked back for her, well, not 
until it was too late, but  America of course. And what
do you know, waste from America down the bowl, it's a blues bending
I AM in the stream.






We might all weep beneath the trees, which
>speak only to the insane.

Wow dude, did you have a bad fall from a tree?
The tree is a giving tree. In almost every myth,
it's enlightenment and immortality and the cosmos,
life. Again, like the Rainbow and Gravity, the tree
is opposed to the Rocket.



Pynchon presents the belief in the
>continuity of our spiritual existence after death as just one more
>shuck *They* feed the meek -- as a tool with which to convince others
>to die in *Their* stead.

Yes, They will try to inspire the preterite with the "Flame" everlasting, 
but They are gods of secular and profane
dead/earth/history. So if they cite Rilke or Jesus or Marx or
the Buddha, They are only talking secular Death, and
secular Death transfigured--MORE DEATH.

>
>We are all grease upon the skids of great moving stones. Make the best
>of it. Try not to hurt anybody. "Be cool, but care."
>Mark

like Sphere I never bought into that
cool stuff, it's all a misunderstanding, imagine that
the man with the Plastic sax (Pynchon 590) can't quite get what the
girl is saying, she's no stoic...Pynchon sounds like
a real unhappy dude in your reading of his book, but
I think that keep cool but care is for robots and
men that don't want to grow up, like Sphere and Benny.

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