Fwd: GRGR 1,1: Pirate's Ascent/Desent

[jporter]

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> From: jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net>
> Date: November 3, 2005 9:27:32 AM EST
> To: jbor at bigpond.com
> Subject: Re: GRGR 1,1: Pirate's Ascent/Desent
>
> I agree. Some further parallels:
>
> 	Trusswork is pierced by daylight, milky panes
> 	beam beneficently down. How could there be
> 	a winter- even this one- gray enough to age this
> 	iron that can sing in the wind, or cloud these
> 	windows that open into another season, however
> 	falsely preserved?
>
> Versus rust and "no way out."
>
> jody
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2005, at 6:50 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>
>> Yes, there is something familiar. While Callisto's hothouse is a 
>> "closed system", and unrelentingly sterile, Pirate's rooftop garden 
>> is miraculously fecund. And in the maisonette there's a middle level, 
>> the "minstrels' gallery" (p. 5), from which Teddy Bloat tumbles. 
>> Those excluded middles are Bad Shit, as we well know.
>>
>> I think what makes it so familiar are the very precise parallels 
>> between the structure of Pirate's maisonette, with its rooftop garden 
>> and "glass hothouse" (p. 5), and the conveyance and edifices conjured 
>> up in the dream, that "carriage [...] built on several levels" (p. 3) 
>> -- all the glass and the bed and trestles and windows and smells and 
>> mysteriously vital growth and fancy iron eaves. His "comrades in 
>> arms". And the presentiment of destruction, burnt wood, the feeling 
>> that something is about to collapse on top of him (both Bloat and, 
>> perhaps, augured by that air raid siren screaming across the sky and 
>> waking him, a rocket).
>>
>> best
>