VLVL(3): Space is Really Something

[Dave Monroe]

   "She wa'n' spoze to Hector, that was never part of
the deal.  I wondered how long it would take--twelve,
thirteen years, not bad, you mind if I call the
Guinness Book Hot Line with this, it has to be a world
record for fascist regimes keepin' their word.'
   "'Still simmerin away with those same old feelings,
I see--figured you'd be mellower by now, maybe some
reconciliation with reality, I dunno.'
   "'When the State withers away, Hector.'
   "'Caray, you sixties people, it's mazing.  Ah love
ya!  Go anywhere, it don't matter--hey, Mongolia!  Go
way out into small-town Outer Mongolia, ese, there's
gonna be some local person about your age come runnin
up, two fingers in a V, hollerin, 'What's yer sign,
man?' or singin 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' note for note.'
   "'Satellites, everybody hears everything, space is
really something, what else?'" (VL, Ch. 3, p. 28)


"The Guinness Book Hot Line"

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/NewRecordForm800.asp

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/GWR4/faqs/FAQ_Answer800.asp?ID=11

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/FAQs/Faq_List800.asp

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/


"fascist regimes"

"Except for the succession of the criminally insane
who have enjoyed power since 1945, including the power
to do something about it, the rest of us poor sheep
have always been stuck with simple, standard fear."

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

And see as well, here ...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/


"some reconciliation with reality"

Main Entry: re·al·po·li·tik 
Pronunciation: rA-'äl-"pO-li-"tEk
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: German, from real actual + Politik politics
Date: 1914
: politics based on practical and material factors
rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


"When the State withers away"

Friedrich Engels, Anti-Düring (1878) ...

"The first act, by virtue of which the state really
constitutes itself the representative of society as a
whole—the taking possession of the means of production
in the name of society—is, at the same time, its last
independent act as a state. The state interference in
social relations becomes superfluous in one sphere
after another, and then ceases of itself. The
government of persons is replaced by the
administration of things and by the direction of the
processes of production. The state is not ’abolished,’
it withers away." (Pt. 3, Ch. 2)

http://www.bartleby.com/66/12/21612.html

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/404.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/granat/ch04.htm


"hey, Mongolia!"

Genghis Blues (1999)

http://www.genghisblues.com/

To the Editor:

In a recent letter to the editor, Romain Gary asserts
that I took the name "Genghis Cohen" from a novel of
his to use in a novel of mine, The Crying of Lot 49.
Mr. Gary is totally in error. I took the name Genghis
Cohen from the name of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), the
well-known Mongol warrior and statesman. If Mr. Gary
really believes himself to be the only writer at
present able to arrive at a play on words this
trivial, that is another problem entirely, perhaps
more psychiatric than literary, and I certainly hope
he works it out.

Thomas Pynchon,

New York City.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000824131346/pynchonfiles.com/cohn.htm

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cohen.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/cl49/GengCo.html


"What's yer sign, man?"

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/horos1.htm

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/m_d_astro.htm


"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968)

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey,
don't you know that I love you?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby,
don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me
and take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me
and walk this land?

Please take my hand!

-Repeat-

~solos~

-Repeat-  

http://www.ironbutterfly.com/lyvida.htm

And see as well ...

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/index.php?review_id=436

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/28/deaths.braunn.ap/

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F02.html


"Satellites"

http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.ETRelaysFull.html

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/satcomhistory.html

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/constellations/overview.html

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