Fw: MDDM Ch. 12 Summary & Notes

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> >
> > About dictionaries I must confess that there are certain words I've been
> > meaning to look up for literally years.
> >
> > Never wanted to interrupt the flow.
> >
> > :-)
> 
> aide-mémoire:   A memorandum setting forth the major points of a
> proposed discussion or agreement, used especially in diplomatic
> communications. Also called position paper. 2. Something, such as a
> mnemonic device, that serves as an aid to memory. [French : aide, aid +
> memoire, memory.]
> - AHD

Anti-soap boxing shadows of the past and I forgot to provide the page in
M&D. 
Geeeezuss tripe soup and corn bread, it's M&D.133

All this performance, parade, theatre. This Island reminds me of the 
colonial outposts in V., It is, at times, a  stage, the players acting,
some pulled as if on strings like puppets. The universe seems inverted,
at times inside out ( note all the oxymoronic descriptions, the high
revines, the highest peaks of hell) and  private thought, dreams, are
public. There is something in the Wind that causes this I think. 

Like the spherics and the tribal languages and song in the wind in V. 
Or the atmospheric noise in TSI

"then the thing in the sky was right for it-all these coming
down, filtering through to populate his dreams, so that in
the morning he'd never know which had been real, which he'd
hallucinated." (S.L. TSI.149) 
 

It carries a song, a voice of pain, as it does in V. 
The Wind breaks  through barriers, these being penetrable supernatural 
walls or spaces, bringing visitants, attenuated ghosts,  from the Regime
of Death to the sunny Colony of Life. 

"Whether we like it or not that war destroyed a kind of
privacy, perhaps the privacy of dream." (V..263) 

And to complicate this, Wicks, like so many Pynchon character /
narrators is nodding in and out of dreams. All sorts of filthy stuff
could be mixed in to this tale now, even cartoons I imagine. No wonder
Wicks tried to send the young ones off to bed.