NPPR "fainting fit": lines 146-156, and Tyrone on the Street, soon gone..

[Prsamsa at aol.com]

My simple little AOL mail-deal is not showing the passages under this 
posting,
but if it doesn't show, I urge you to look these up, on Eliade and Proust, 
posted
on 9/25 by "fakename" to get
a better "flavor" for this passage, when you may.

P. 693, Viking-Compass edition,  under header:
STREETS

"At least one moment of passage, one it will hurt to lose, ought to be found 
for every
street now indifferently gray with commerce, with war, with 
repression...finding it,
learning to cherish what was lost, mightn't we find some way back?"
     That sounds like TP paraphrasing and compacting the idea of memory/
transformation as outlined in the Eliade and Proust passages.  

     The direct address of TP to the reader,  the fact that Tyrone is about 
to "lose
his temporal bandwith"  (see also:  earlier passage about a "glitch in time", 
a space
where "time" has become inoperative, though I can't get to my glossary from 
here,
now)--oh, and I see on p. 695, the idea of "no-sound" played with--on 
694--"He doesn't remember sitting on the curb for so long..."--
    Tyrone, to be brief, seems to be having a spiritual experience, as 
described by
saints and others (see, for instance, Wm James, "Varieties...) and let's 
suppose
that TP however crudely--you just CAN''T hardly translate these experiences 
into
words that do them justice--seems to be following Proust and the other quote
but, here' s a thought, at this extreme crossroads of light, heat, matter, 
time,
atomic structure exposed by two A-bombs and used to "crucify" some many 
thousand innocent
civilians in Japan--couldn't Tyrone, a mirror of  Proust, be launched, be 
laughed into
the future,-- TP's present, 1963 or 4 or whenever TP settled on TS as his 
main
character for his new work?

Also I looked up Tyrone Powers' birthday in a movie Encyclopedia and it's
eerily close to TP's:   May 5, (1913)--and Powers starred in, get this,
"A Yank in the RAF"!!, and cultured interesting films like "The Razor's
Edge" and "The Sun Also Rises."  In my film encylopeda, by Ephraim Katz,
Tyrone Powers is listed as a matinee idol peaking about 1937 who had his
career derailed by service in WW II.  

I know it's pure conjecture but it does explain a few things.  

Perry, 
no sig.
I'm on a roll. 
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