AtDDtA(15): Outro

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/20/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> "Well hello everybody, I'd like to introduce "Legs" Larry Smith, drums. . . ."

... and Sam Spoon, rhythm pole ...

> First off, congrats to Dave on a superb set of annotations with some great
questions---like "what the hell is going on?"

This I understand is not an uncommon question when it comes to Pynchon ...

> I can only offer that we are entering into a zone* where things get increasing fictitious for awhile.

Entering? ...

> A customer at my store yesterday was looking for history books concerning WWII, knew a fair bit concerning WWI, pointing out the build-up of naval power , the blur between pleasure luxury liners and warships at the time and the near-mystical qualities of the strait of Gibraltar.

Okay, found Mark's note about Pynchon having borrowed this ...

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300101508

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0706&msg=119206

... which I by and large forgot about during the last M&D reading ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0209&msg=70654

... but where's the one about his also having borrowed/read, I THINK,
perhaps even having been acknowledged in ...

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring06/032847.htm

... or somesuch, though do note ...

Rodger, N.A.M.  The Insatiable Earl:
   A Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich,
   1718-1792.  London: HarperCollins, 1993.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65195

> * Don't know about your take on this, but as far as I can tell, "The Zone" is the region of Europe without govermental claim [for the moment, at least.] ...

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143037750,00.html?breadcrumbList=judt&bcPath=c590611%2D00000000%23%23%2D1%23%23%2D1%7E%7Eq6a756474&searchProfile=US-590611-global&strSrchSql=judt

... geographically, historically, yes, but also cf. ...

There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid
region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be
born."  --Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Mask (1952; p. 8)

As well as, anachronistically (as well as anarchically) ...

http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html

A set of possibilties, potentialities ...