Pirate "pixilated" GR Part 1 Section 2

[Dave Monroe]

Perhaps our antipodean freund types so much he's lost
his ear for our nore-or-less shared language. 
Spellin' ain't got nothin' t'do wit' it, viz. ...  

"... much of what the dossiers call Pirate Prentice is
a strange talent for--well, for getting inside the
fantasies of others: being able, actually, to take
over the burden of managing them ...." (GR, Pt. I, pp.
11-12)

"Pirate's odd talent for living the fantasies of
others ...." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 612)

There is certainly something of the televisual there,
and, as Mr. Morris kindly pointed out to me long ago,
it's not as if the teevee doesn't figure in GR ...

"'I dream of a great glass sphere, hollow and very
high and far away ... the colonists have learned to do
without air, it's vacuum inside and out ... it's
understood the men won't ever return ... they are all
men.  There are ways for getting back, but so
complicated, so at the mercy of language, that
presence back on Earth is only temporary, and never
'real.'  Inside the colony, the handful of men have a
frosty appearance, hardly solid, no more alive than
memories, nothing to touch ... only their remote
images, black and white film-images, grained, broken
year after hoarfrost year out in the white latitudes
..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 723)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48652&sort=date

Cf. ...

http://hrdi.engin.umich.edu/images/Tour%20of%20the%20Solar%20System%20Slides/images/Moon%20Landing%20(slide%2012)_jpg.jpg

http://hrdi.engin.umich.edu/images/Tour%20of%20the%20Solar%20System%20Slides/pages/Moon%20Rover%20(slide%2013)_jpg.htm

I can't recall now how pixles came into the
discussion, but there is a certain resonance here,
conceptually as well as audibly, so ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Nothing to do with pixels, pixellation, pixellated.
> Wrong spelling.


		
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