J-bore blunder quote

[jolly]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>     [...] The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant
>     whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid
>     for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening
>     about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns
>     probe ancient foetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in
>     the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the
>     word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor
>     then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were:
>     inside, safe, or outside, lost. (Lot 49, p. 89)

"A very nice quotation. It reminds me why I like Pynchon so much:  His 
writing is often just beautiful, poetic.   It's been a long time since 
I've read COL49."
 
Yes, it is a nice passage ( if a  wee bit drafty), but it isn't in  COL49.   I think it's from V or GR.  Pg 89 in Chapter 5 of COL 49 is the middle of the Oedipa's strange journey through North Beach...
 
ya might try that research methods class, J-bore



		
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