Prognostication on the P-list

[rich]

one of the things that I noticed is that we have central asia and
siberia--are we to return to khirgiz light again as well as tunguska?

drooling
rich


On 8/9/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm looking at the timeline covered by "Against the Day"---1893 to the
> years after WWI---and realize that a tremendous outpouring of great
> literature appeared during those years. I've been reading "Swann's Way" in
> the recent Lydia Davis translation. Here is a taste of 1908:
>
> " . . . "Come and keep your old friend company," he had said to me. "Like
> a bouquet sent to us by a traveler from a country to which we will never
> return, allow me to breath from the distance of your adolescence those
> flowers that belong to the springtimes which I too traversed many years ago.
> Come with the primrose, the monk's beard, the buttercup, come with the sedum
> that makes the bouquet of love in Balzac's flora, come with the flower of
> Resurrection Day, the Easter daisy, and the garden snowdrop, which is
> beginning to perfume your great-aunt's paths even though the last snows
> dropped by the Easter showers have not melted. Come with the glorious silk
> raiment worthy of Solomon himself, and with the breeze still cool from the
> last frosts, that will open the petals, for the two butterflies that have
> waited at its door since morning, of the first Jerusalem rose."
>
> from Mike Weaver:
>
> " A suggestion: The paranoia set off by staccato appearance of details,
> the hopes and fears and giddiness released, seem to have left in their trail
> rich pickings. We could spend those 100 odd days exploring them. What went
> on between 1893 and 1923, in Chicago, New York, London, Gottingen, Venice,
>  Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia , Mexico, postwar Paris,
> silent-era Hollywood. (If we exhaust that theme could check out those off
> the map places)"
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:57:02 +0000
> Subject: Re: Prognostication on the P-list
>
>
> Then again, if you're a
> believer in free will, you'll recognize that it's possible that those
> talented and intelligent people will, after all these years, finally
> elect
> to suck it up, accept the fact that they might never be reconciled with
> 1-10
> people who also happen to be on the mailing list, and lay off the
> sniping.
>
> Mixing metaphors,
>
> list nanny d.
>
>
> Nicely stated - I'll second that. The recent enhanced list levity has
> muffled the gunfire, but a holster trumps a silencer every day.
>
> A suggestion:
> The paranoia set off by staccato appearance of details, the hopes and
> fears and giddiness released, seem to have left in their trail rich
> pickings. We could spend those 100 odd days exploring them.
> What went on between 1893 and 1923, in Chicago, New York, London,
> Gottingen, Venice,  Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia , Mexico,
> postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood. (If we exhaust that theme could check
> out those off the map places)
>
> Then there are all those characters, the anarchists, balloonists,
> gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents,
> mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians,
> spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. What were  the states of
> their arts and occupations in those years. Historically or fictionally.
>
> Put some structure in place -
> 15 or 17 weeks, two years a week, or a place and an occupation? Hosted or
> no?
>
> AtDAtD
> Afore the Day, Against the Day.
>
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20060809/e415acfc/attachment.html>