AtDTDA (16) 434 +

[Mark Kohut]

YES!!    Great associational finds.............
   
  Pynchon cross alludes.........his tropes and metaphors change but stay the same.......Yes?
   
  All: 25 word essay on the above.
   
  I will have more to say on this after I read the papers turned in........
   
  Mark

dmugmon at comcast.net wrote:
     
    >P 434 Special Desert Detail:   Desert = What Associations?    Doesn't TRP do some rifiing
  >on deserts in GR?..... 
  >"the high-desert traces of an ancient European order" 436 in GR...but there is more I can't find...anyone, >anyone?
   
  Just tryin’ to help -
   
  The desert in GR?  I think of the ride of Tchitcherine and Qulan, particularly their meeting with the Kazakh singer.   Fermented mare’s milk has everyone ‘lit up’!  The aqyn sings of Kirghiz Light.
   
  ...In the place where words are unknown,
  And eyes shine like candles at night,
  And the face of God is a presence
  Behind the mask of the sky-
  As the tall black rock in the desert,
  In the time of the final days.
   
  If the place were not so distant,
  If words were known and spoken,
  Then the God might be a gold ikon,
  Or a page in a paper book.
  But It comes as the Kirghiz Light-
  There is no other way to know It
.
   
  
For I tell you what I have seen It
  In a place which is older than darkness,
  Where even Allah cannot reach.
  As you see, my beard is an ice-field,
  I walk with a stick to support me,
  But this light must change us to children
.
  (GR, p 358) 
   
  Gaspereaux on locating Shambhala -
  “I feel the difficulty may lie here,” directing their attention to the center of the display, where, visible only at intervals, stood a mountain peak, blinding white, seeming lit from within, light pouring from it, bursting continually, illuminating transient clouds and even the empty sky
.
  “Thought at first to be Mount Kailash in Tibet,” said Gaspereaux,”a destination for Hindu Pilgrims for whom it is the paradise of Shiva, their most holy spot, as well as the traditional starting point for seekers of Shambhala
.
  (ATD, p 437)
   
  Far away to the north, a white mountaintop winks in the last sunlight.  
Tchitcherine will reach the Kirghiz Light, but not his birth.  He is no aqyn, and his heart will never be ready. 
He will see it just before dawn.  He will spend 12 hours then, face up on the desert, a prehistoric city greater than Babylon lying in stifled mineral sleep a kilometer below his back

  (GR, p 359)
   
  Shambhala?
   
   
   
   
   
     
  



       
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