OT: 1st reading of GR

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
That is weird, isn't it. It doesn't seem to close anywhere in the
Pokler episode as it's still open by the 'chapter break' of sprocket
holes. Several other parentheses open and close after the open one you
found, and there doesn't seem to be  a natural close before the first
of these subsequent parenthesis groups. Pretty cool, I agree. 

You've got a sharp eye, there. Keep a weather eye open for a loose
'close parenthesis' somewhere in the next chapter, and sing out for
him...

Whoever of ye raises me that same white whale shall have this gold
ounce.  Skin your eyes for him; look sharp ---- if ye see but a bubble
sing out!
Mark



--- albert pulido <albertpulido at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On the topic of reading GR, I'm also on my first reading and
> encountered on 
> page 411 a parenthesis that doesn't seem to get closed. I *think*
> I've seen 
> something like this before in the text. Is a parenthesis in this case
> a 
> device Pynchon uses to segue, not feeling the need to close them
> (it's 5 
> pages later and the plot has seemed to move on)-- only using them as 
> transition?
> If so, that's pretty cool. Has anyone seen something like this from
> another 
> author? Or does the ( eventualy get closed and I haven't gotten there
> yet?
> 
> Albert
> 
> 
> >From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> >To: brook7 at earthlink.net, pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: RE: OT: 1st reading of GR
> >Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:43:46 +0000
> >
> >
> >Your question is a good one.  One would think that Slothrop would
> begin to 
> >correlate his sexual liasons with the bombed locations he
> subsequently 
> >inspects.  One might even suspect that his assignment to that job
> was a 
> >part of "Their" plans for his future deployment.  But in GR nothing
> is ever 
> >clear-cut.  As you continue reading it becomes unclear whether the
> spots 
> >marked on the map are real encounters or possible just imagined
> ones.  
> >Nevertheless they seem to fortell future bombings.
> >
> >I suggest you follow one of the GRGR's (group reads) in the WASTE
> archives. 
> >  One started in August 1999 and continued through September 2000. 
> An 
> >earlier one started a couple years earlier, but I can't locate it at
> the 
> >moment.
> >
> >Ghetta
> >
> >
> >>From: "Joseph Tracy" <brook7 at earthlink.net>>
> >>After several renewals I finally returned my borrowed  copy of
> Vineland 
> >>and went out and bought a copy of GR. I have just started the 3rd
> section 
> >>and have a  fundamental plot question mixed in with a few hundred 
> >>structural and interpretive questions. I have never encountered a
> text 
> >>this dense with historic information, spiritual esoterica, science
> etc. My 
> >>question is this.  In the first 2 sections has Slothrop himself
> correlated 
> >>theV-2 strikes with his sexual encounters? This seems, almost
> impossibly, 
> >>since his 1st job was to inspect strike sites, to be the case? Is
> this 
> >>something everyone he works with knows but him , or am I missing
> something 
> >>that indicates he shares this basic knowledge?
> >
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