pynchonesque landscape

[Erik T. Burns]

in particular, RemediosVaroLand from TCOL49.

http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm (you can zoom in and out)

"In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings by the
beautiful Spanish exile Remedios Varo: in the central paintings of a
triptych, titled 'Bordando el Manto Terrestre', were a number of frail girls
with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair, prisoners in the top
room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out
the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for
all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of
the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world."

(thanks, Otto - who has R. Varo paintings on his site:
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/varo.htm)

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