Six year coma

[Mark Wright AIA]

And of course both have listened to some Dylan in their day:

"...and though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great Rain-bow
she spends her time looking in to Desolation Row."

That's is a swell song, ain't it? 

Rainbow frames the catastrophe like a proscenium arch --- deluge is
implicit. Flotsam becomes jetsam, and all is wreckage and waste.



--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Not that novel, but I've read "Inversions" (1998) in German and have
> quite
> enjoyed it. Indeed, I too believe that Banks has read his Pynchon, in
> the
> second chapter of "Inversions" there's a reference to Goethe's remark
> of
> rainbows:
> 
> "So bliebe denn die Sonne mir im Rücken.
> Allein wie herrlich, diesem Sturm erspriessend,
> Wölbt sich des bunten Bogens Wechseldauer,
> Bald rein gezeichnet, bald in Luft zerfließend,
> Umherverbreitend duftig kühle Schauer.
> D e r spiegelt ab das menschliche Bestreben.
> Ihm sinne nach, und du begreifst genauer:
> Am farbigen Abglanz haben wir das Leben."
> Goethe, Faust, II, Zeilen 4715, 4721-27
> 
> But see how, rising from this turbulence,
> the rainbow forms its changing-unchanged arch
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> .
> Of human striving it's perfect symbol--
> ponder this well to understand more clearly
> that what we have as life is many-hued reflection.
> (Faust, Part II, Act I)
> http://www.sokagakkai.info/html3/pi_earth3/germany3.html
> 
> Otto
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <grip at speakeasy.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:52 PM
> Subject: Six year coma
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > grip at netcom.com fell into a deep sleep in early 1997 but has now
> awakened
> as
> > grip at speakeasy.net. Anyone still around from those halcyon days
> before
> M&D?
> > Steelhead? Bonnie? Andrew?
> >
> > I think I will forgo the pleasure of trying to catch up with 6+
> years of
> > Pynchonada and just hangout to see what, if anything, is going on.
> I do
> admit
> > that I am curious about the discussions I missed on M&D but since I
> could
> never
> > get through the damned book, maybe it's just as well.
> >
> > So why did I return, someone might be curious to know. I suppose
> it's
> because
> > last night I was struck by a feeling that what I was reading was
> heavily
> > influenced by TRP; The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Has anyone else
> read
> > this? I found it interesting that the usual list of critical
> reviews on
> the
> > back includes, "Rubbish!" and "There's nothing to force you, having
> been
> > warned, to read it; nor do I recommend it" by The Times (London)
> and The
> > Scotsman, respectively.
> >
> > Lawrence, who used to sign off as "grip"
> >
> >
> 


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