AtD - Anarchy vs Terror

[rich]

I thought also tangentally of the story/movie The Thing--something in
somewhat human form brought up from the ice and bringing havoc and mayhem

rich

On 12/1/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> Did anyone else take the Creature laying waste to the City sequence as, in
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au>
> >Sent: Nov 30, 2006 9:39 PM
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: RE: AtD - Anarchy vs Terror
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> >Me too, partly - and perhaps, at a stretch, the reader's skepticism ("of
> >course there was never *really* a hole in the antarctic pole!") a
> >literary refraction of contemporary denial about climate change, most
> >obviously the ozone hole of which people living around my neck of the
> >woods are all too immediately aware.
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> >From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> >Behalf Of kelber at mindspring.com
> >Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 1:28 PM
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: RE: AtD - Anarchy vs Terror
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> >SPOILER, p.114-118
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> >I took this description to be sort of a negative (photographically
> >speaking) image of what's actually happening in the modern world: the
> >shrinking of the polar icecaps due to global warming.
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> >Laura
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >>From: John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au>
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> >More interesting to me was the way
> >>P describes the polar entry points to the Telluric interior as freezing
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> >>over, sealing up, and the interior itself as being a far darker, more
> >>dismal place than it was in M&D. It's easy to infer that soon enough
> >>those icecaps will be solid, and the interior will be inaccessible.
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> >>It does a nice job of extending that M&D theme of modernity
> >>rationalising away the possibility of magic, of wonder, of the
> >>impossible. Which of course is something that runs through every one of
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> >>P's novels.
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