CANTO ONE: "slain/By"

[charles albert]

"Feigned remoteness" suggests an 'agency" absent in the first example.....I
am not certain what that shift accomplishes, unless it is to link to the
"cage keepers".



love,
cfa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
To: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at comcast.net>; "Pynchon-L"
<pynchon-l at waste.org>; "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: CANTO ONE: "slain/By"


>
>
> "slain / By the false azure in the windowpane,"
> "slain / By the feigned remoteness of the windowpane,"
>
> In both cases a deception via the windowpane causes the death.  The "false
> azure" implies a painted stage set, sort of like the road-runner cartoon's
> painted-on tunnels into the side of a mountain.  The "feigned remoteness"
is
> also a deceit, implying cognizance.  In literal terms though the death is
due
> to the ignorance of the waxwing and cognizance is loaded onto the
windowpane
> out of our sympathy for the bird.
>
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