AtDDtA(15): Nasotemporal Transit

[Mark Kohut]

yes!....and I'm a little manic here, post after post, so send me my meds BUT until they arrive, this is exciting, yes?.....
   
  1) Yes, Miles with "the gift" !
  Therefore some truth and insight.....
   
  2) the "smell' of smegmo transports him back to time before his lifetime.......to
  a time that Pynchon feels is more real, more natural, more whole, NOT Processed???

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
  "'I have smelled something like this before,' pondered Miles, 'yet
... not in this life. For ... in the way that certain odors can
instantly return us to earlier years ...'
"'Nasotemporal Transit,' nodded the savvy youth. 'There's a
seminar on that tomorrow, over at Finney Hall. Or do I mean day
before yesterday?'
"'Well, sir, this Smegmo concoction here takes me back even further
than childhood, in fact clear on back to a previous life, to before I
was even conceived--'" (AtD, Pt. II, p. 408)

"Against the Day" does include elements from all of Pynchon's other 
books to such a degree as to effectivly knit them together into one 
giant novel (just as all the internal cross-referencing in Mahler's 
symphonies makes them all part of one giant symphony). The 
title "In Search of Lost Time" could apply just as well to "Against 
the Day", perhaps---what with all the time travel and wanderings 
into hitherto imaginary lands, like Shambala, 1920's Hollywood 
(furthur transposed into early Pulp Fiction) and the final. weird, 
Bi-Location of modern-day Anarchist types upon Paris in 1920, 
just around the corner from Marcel,---Proust's title applies to an 
even greater degree to Pynchon's novel. I know there must be a 
deeper well here, and if nothing else, Pynchon shares at least 
one religious devotion with Proust:

"if God does indeed reside in the details, Proust 
worshipped like a man on fire. "

Mark Kohut:
This is a great find re 'dayness' and ATD including History, etc. 
....in many ways ATD is TRP's Remembrance of Things Past, yes?

http://tinyurl.com/2v2uu7

Notice, by the way, that it's Miles who experiences Nasotemporal Transit.
Miles is the Chum with "the gift".


       
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