pacing

[jporter]

It would probably depend on the state of your Oneirine stash, dude.


On Oct 25, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Cometman wrote:

> -- i'm curious, would that rate continue or would the themes develop
> more quickly for awhile thereafter, then slow to a brief stop, then
> speed up again, like the delta v of a trajectory?
>
> (still thinking about the meaning of Jackie Gleason's boutonniere)
>
>

Oh that? You mean his Michaelmas daisy? I think that resonates
with image of "The Triumph of Death" pix that falls on Jedgar's
shoulder-

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/death.jpg

Ya know, St Michael and the final battle? Only this time
Death wins.

In my theory of DeLillo representing Euler's equation with
these cronies- Sinatra, Gleason, Jedgar, Schor, Hoover and
himself (as the "zeroed out" author), I Imagine Gleason to be
the "i", or, the square root of negative one. Remember, I claimed
that Jedgar (who else?) was the negative one.

I won't get into Sinatra, and Schor, right now, but here's a clue: e
and pi are the only two "numbers" of the equation left. There is
still the equals sign. I guess we could assign that to the reader,
left with the task of linking it all together. I thought it was 
brilliant
at the time.

Be that as it may, the faintly falling paper in the stands, along
with that Breugel picture brought me back to the end of Joyce's
"The Dead." The scene really worked on me. No matter how
you slice it, I love that first section of _Underworld_.

jody