AtDDtA(15): What if They Weren't Harmonica Players?

[David Payne]

> "the vast undiscriminating light of the Sky"> This strikes me as possibly a new yet important trope for Pynchon. Help!
 
M&D p. 433: The Professor moves the free ends of the wires slowly together,- suddenly between them leaps a giant Spark, blindingly white ... Mason stares, bedazzl'd ... "The Spark was too bright, Mason. All look'd away, but you." ... In the hidden journal ... Mason writes, "I saw at the heart of the Electrick Fire, beyond color, beyond even Shape, an aperture into another Dispensation of Space, yea and time, than what Astronomers and Surveyors are us'd to working with.
 
p. 442: "Quite powerful," when they have coaxed him at last to their own regime of light ... Others, before too much Clarity, become blind to the other World
 
p. 442: Think of Mr. Franklin's Armonica. Rather than a Finger circling upon the stationary Rim of a Glass, the Finger keeps still, whilst the Rim rotates. As long as there is movement between the two, a note is produc'd. Similarly, this Oolite Array, at this latitude, will be spun along at more than seven hundred miles per hour,- spun thro' the light of the Sun, and whatever Medium bears it to us. What arises from this? What Music?
 
p. 463: Here he is silenc'd by an immense Thunder-Bolt from directly overhead, as their frail Prism is bleach'd in unholy Light ... Each Lightning-stroke another step across the landscape, the miles-high Electrickal Insect, whose footfalls are Thunder-Claps, proceeds at some broken, incomprehensible Pace, passing on toward Philadelphia and the Sea, and the Sky is restor'd to its pitiless Clarity, in time to obtain a good Zenith Distance for Capella.


Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:16:33 -0700From: markekohut at yahoo.comSubject: Re: AtDDtA(15): What if They Weren't Harmonica Players?To: mikebailey at speakeasy.netCC: pynchon-l at waste.org
Here's another "memory' tweaked........when Pynchon was alluded to on the old
John Larroquette show...90's........the book he was said to be working on was called
"Pandemonium of the Sun".....now, take with the all the irony we can, but could he have been sorta alluding to AtD a little?mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
Dave Monroe requested help, but I could only offer:> "the vast undiscriminating light of the Sky">> This strikes me as possibly a new yet important trope for Pynchon. Help!harkens back though, to the proverbial[things that] "won't stand the light of day"shady business indeed> "Perhaps even surrogates recruited to stay behind on the ground,> allowing the 'real' Chums to take to the Skies and so escape some> unbearable situation? [...] the Chums had needed them ... they came"cf Saeure Bummer, "when you're this high, andyou need somebody, they just show up"


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