MDDM ch. 68 "yet these do live..." (660.20)

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In a message dated 8/6/02 11:55:19 PM, pynchonoid at yahoo.com writes:

<< I like that Dantean request for spare change at the
end of his Disneyesque sob-story.
 >>

Not quite an ear museum ear- this is the american
woods, after all, and still somewhat sacred- but he
does deserve his sixpence a head, doesn't he?

And the ghosters may be more imaginary than real,
but he makes their possibility seem real enough to
do the trick. I think they represent the possibility
of individuality, without which there is nothing to
transcend. The fear of actually becoming purely
independent entities also seems to be what allows
our heroes to forget, for this timeless moment,
their separateness, and to come together. 

An unstable situation, fer sure, and Mason almost
seems relieved that this american vasudeva reveals
his profanity by asking to be compensated for
this bit of Demian Metaphysics.

And "yet these do live...."

The quantum mechanical explanation, I suppose,
would picture this setting as a Josephson junction,
with our boys losing their fermi-dirac shyness and
becoming a Bose-Einstein condensate, but I think
that was covered the last time out. The junction
allusion, though, would explain the ability to "tunnel"
to the seemingly unreachable giant vegetable patch,
before crossing the other rivers involved, and,
perhaps, give more credence to the "Italian Opera"
version of the line as continuing the circumnavigation.


Not to mention relieving Wicks of narrative responsibilties
beyond his ken, yet potentially available in the very
structure of the text from the beginning. No 
manipulation by outside forces required, i.e.,
batteries included.