MDMD George III

[John Bailey]

There's an author named Denise Nessel who works in California, and I had a 
chuckle when I noticed that one of the books she has edited is named 
'Awakening Young Minds'. Considering the scene at hand, I found that funny. 
If not actually relevant.

DePugh and Dupont: possibility I guess. As for LeSpark, excuse my ignorance 
but can any elaborate on the French-sounding names of both LeSpark and 
DePugh? Does that indicate something about the family? Am I meant to realise 
something I don't when I read those names? I would have assumed an English 
background to these families, though I don't know why. Not that Spark is a 
French word. But then neither is Cherrycoke. Unless it is an Anglocised 
version of something like Cheriecoq, or Pretty Rooster. And he does crow 
like a rooster, that's for sure, though I'd never thought of him as pretty, 
but whatever floats ya boat.

There was a very interesting composer named Ives from (I think) the start of 
the last Century. Did some important things with tonality or atonality 
actually. Which just keeps coming up in these damn books. I honestly would 
never have come across 12-tone music and the rest if it wasn't for Pynchon 
and this list. But in V. we've got Fergus Myxolidian, COL49 there's some 
Stockhausen, GR really gets down to the meat and potatos far more than I can 
be bothered to detail here. Anyway. The bow I'm drawing may be long but it 
still shoots straight.

Some thoughts:
M&D is very much about Space. It is equally about Time.
Specifically, it is very much about how we measure time, the different ways, 
as well as the ways we experience time. Some of these ways are related to 
the sun, to light, and to darkness, and to the spinning of the planet, the 
dance of the cosmos, in short, some ways we measure and experience Time are 
inseparable from Space, and not in an abstract mathematical Einsteinian way, 
but just as a simple phenomenological thing.

And then there are clocks, calendars, histories, which impose an order on 
this time and separate it from space. Just as boundary lines, compasses, 
sextants and maps impose an order on space, outside of time.

This cutting up attempts to create pure time and pure space as if they can 
be separable from one another. This doesn't settle well here.

Also, the names of our Philly Phamily may in some way relate to this...wicks 
allow us to beat the tyranny of natural daylight and darkness? Or something 
along those lines.

How many people are listening to this story now? I can't quite recall. I'll 
list who I can remember, and if anyone can point out whom I have forgotten 
it would be much appreciated.

Wicks Cherrycoke, Pitt & Pliny, Tenebrae, Cousin Ethelmer, Uncle Ives, 
DePugh, Auntie Euphrenia, anyone else?




>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: MDMD George III
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:29:00 -0400
>
>http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/uranus.html
>
>Anyone got anything on the german engineer, Dr. Nessel?
>
>
>DePugh and Dupont?
>I don't know. Gunpowder and spark. And Ives is an interesting name too.
>
>But we have all these candles. Wicks, Tenebrae, the Christian Calendar,
>the kids now rushing to get the tapers, light the orrery, the candle
>smoke and shadows.


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