ATDTDA p 411 & forward, passing thoughts

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.

mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:  somebody probably mentioned the nifty acronym 
"Finding of Unusual Circumstances Questionnaire"

(fuc-q)

I know why I didn't think of Meatman as
answering to the "lycopodium" description type:
they - Freudian slip - I mean the narrator - keeps
referring to him as "young Meatman"
which argues against the whole preacher-teacher typology
(typonymy?) -- but, even teachers and preachers 
must have been young once, no?

"Chick had a momentary vision of a ship's
passageway somewhere..."
this keeps reminding me of that John Varley book
where the people from the eco-nightmare future
come back to the present and spirit people away
from planes that are about to crash
(cool part is, their air is so polluted, the only
way they can feel at home in the 20th century
is to chain smoke Camel non-filters & the like)

then when they meet up with Mr. Ace, the whole
thing smacks of a cult! This is about the only
intimation or fruitful (maybe?) direction
in the whole section that I don't remember reading
about in Dave's notes. Cult, cult, cult!
Krishnas, Moonies, David Koresh, Charles Manson,
the whole world's going to hell in a handbasket
and only Our Leader has the answer -
"Glossy black eyes, presented like weapons in a duel"
(the hypno-stare) -- and the curious passivity
of the cult members "the change that had come over
his companion the moment they steppe across the doorsill -
a relaxation young Meatman did not bother to conceal, 
as if, having delivered Chick, he might now 
retreat unmolested into the quiescence of a tool returned
at task's end to its crib, a state he seemed almost
to prefer to the troublesome demands of the quotidian" (414)

Or like those Borg, snapping themselves into place
in their sleep pods

It's that Max Weber thing, isn't it
(I think that's the guy) that Pynchon brought into play
describing Weissman's hold over Enzian?


(422) (the Old Man's latrine...)
"ascents of tapwater vapor bearing traces of
local minerals" - that's particularly evocative for
some reason






       
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