More Against the Days

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:59 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Yep, all them "Non-scheduled Theologies" that Lenny Bruce  
> (channeling Oral Roberts) derided, those fly-by-night institutes of  
> spiritual advancement that used to flog their wares in the back  
> pages of "Fate" magazine—all that weird energy comes together  
> within the time-frame and various exotic locales of ATD.
>

Pretty good guess that Pynchon will be employing non-scheduled and  
fly-by-night knowledge systems (often called crackpot) as much as is  
novelistically feasible  to explore how the the Old and the New mesh,  
distinguish themselves each from the other, remain in so many ways  
the same. . . .




> And the unintended consequences of photography, recorded sound and  
> the emerging coalescence of the two in movies [later TV, now  
> morphing into the internet]; wherein souls, no longer restrained by  
> a physical body, come to entertain us either on the Victrola, at  
> the Cinema or perhaps at a seance.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
>> word; I'm also looking forward to an osteopathic subplot (which  
>> links in my mind
>> with DL's heresy about controlling her own body)
>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net  
>>> [mailto:robinlandseadel at comcast.net]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 02:30 AM
>>> To: 'Paul Mackin', pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Subject: Re: More Against the Days
>>>
>>> Think.
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>>>>
>>>> I sort of like the ideas kicking around this morning about the
>>>> calamitous (post 1914) 20th century being in some way a focus of  
>>>> the
>>>> book
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>>>> How aware were the people of what was to come?
>>>>
>>>> There were indications I'm sure.
>>>>
>>>> Pynchon isn't going to settle for any dry old rationalistic theory
>>>> of history approach--marxian, toynbeen, spenglerian, vigoniian what
>>>> have you
>>>>
>>>> Anyone remember that Blavatskian wing of psi section?
>>>>
>>>> Madam Blavatsky is said to have predicted the cataclysms Our Time
>>>> time using esoteric methods
>>>>
>>>> Pynchon is the ideal person to do a complete reworking along these
>>>> lines
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't everyone think?
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> From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
> Date: October 17, 2006 11:20:14 PM EDT
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re:  More Against the Days
>
>
> word; I'm also looking forward to an osteopathic subplot (which  
> links in my mind with DL's heresy about controlling her own body)
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net  
> [mailto:robinlandseadel at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 02:30 AM
> > To: 'Paul Mackin', pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: More Against the Days
> >
> > Think.
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> > >
> > > I sort of like the ideas kicking around this morning about the
> > > calamitous (post 1914) 20th century being in some way a focus  
> of the
> > > book
> > >
> > > How aware were the people of what was to come?
> > >
> > > There were indications I'm sure.
> > >
> > > Pynchon isn't going to settle for any dry old rationalistic theory
> > > of history approach--marxian, toynbeen, spenglerian, vigoniian  
> what
> > > have you
> > >
> > > Anyone remember that Blavatskian wing of psi section?
> > >
> > > Madam Blavatsky is said to have predicted the cataclysms Our Time
> > > time using esoteric methods
> > >
> > > Pynchon is the ideal person to do a complete reworking along these
> > > lines
> > >
> > > Doesn't everyone think?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >

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