ATDTDA (5) mass conveyance

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It recalls the opening passage of GR.
Ditto the thanks to Bekah, and thanks to John Carvill -- your questions approach was great, and the falling off of discussion had everything to do with people getting dragged away by their personal lives, nothing to do with your approach.

Laura

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>>Sent: Apr 1, 2007 1:01 PM
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: ATDTDA (5) mass conveyance
>>
>>Congrats, Bekah, nice start. But I also encourage everyone to bring up the 
>>earlier episodes if they think those hadn't been given due attention. I 
>>don't think there was good discussion of the very ending of section No 5 in 
>>which Hunter embarks on some strange vehicle evacuating people from the city 
>>ruined by the Figure. What's that, a time machine? An inter-dimensional 
>>ferry? Also note the way Hunter's ramblings and his coming across a rusty 
>>ancient-looking building echo Lew Basnight's kafkaesque wanderings until he 
>>finds a strange hotel.
>>
>>
>>'He followed the group dumbly down a flight of winding metal steps to an 
>>electric-lit platform where others, quite a few others in fact, were 
>>boarding a curious mass conveyance, of smooth iron
>>painted a dark shade of industrial gray, swept and sleek, with the pipework 
>>of its exhaust manifold led outside the body, running lights all up and down 
>>its length. [...] Occasionally, through the
>>windows, inexplicably, there were glimpses of the city above them, though 
>>how deep beneath it they were supposed to be traveling was impossible to 
>>tell. [...] The longer they traveled, the more “futuristic” would the 
>>scenery grow. Hunter was on his way to refuge, whatever that might have come 
>>to mean anymore, in this world brought low.' (155)
>>
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