ATDDTA (6) 171 -174

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

bekah wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, back in Colorado, Lew Basnight is searching for the 
> Kieselguhr Kid for White City Investigations and thinks he senses his 
> presence everywhere, tricks of the sunlight, possibly. Theories 
> abound and Biblical references are made. An allusion to Ted 
> Kazinsky certainly seems evident.
> 

that's something I'd have never twigged to...cool!

> *******************
> 171: 20 
>snip Kid backstory...
> 
> (This section seems to eliminate the idea that the Kid is Traverse 
> Webb in disguise.)
> 

or that "a thousand and one tales, all told" exist about him.
Lew's boss intimates as much when he drops in (clients keep paying,
and White City keeps delivering folders)


> *******************
> 
> 172:26 "Did something, something essential happen to human 
> personality above a certain removal from sea level?" 
> 

In Tesla's autobiography, doesn't he indicate that part of his
visionary ability came from growing up in the mountains?




> "Peter specialist" someone who is prophesizing the end of the world
> 2 Peter 3.7 -
> "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are 
> kept in store, reserved unto fire ** against the day** of judgment 
> and perdition of ungodly men." 
> <http://www.bartleby.com/108/61/3.html#S5> (King James)
> 

totally not what I thought (I was thinking "jizzmatic juices backed up")

> *******************
> 173: 22 "got us a man of principle"
> From Pynchon Wiki: 
> <http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_172>
> 
> Like Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber>
> There a several tenuous threads of connection between Pynchon and the 
> Unabomber. 

and some conspiracy stuff out there, suggesting that like OJ, he was framed...
not following that stuff lately (saving like 4 hours a day) 

> *******************
> 174:21 "So Buddy turned in our little brother."
> <http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_173>
> The Unabomber was turned in by his brother. ("Kaczynski" means 
> 'ducky' or 'duckman'.
> 

wow, and again wow...thanks!