Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653

[Mark Kohut]

Remember the mound in M & D?

Stone, the earth, a basic good in OBA...?...until (We) hurt it....?

The earth is where 'the day' happens.....


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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:43:47 AM
Subject: Re: Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653

...and in Gravity's Rainbow, "sentient rocksters"
and the knowing reference to the possible Masonic
association of Stanley and "Living-stone"

like Wordsworth, maybe OBA hears sermons in stone
and perceives good in every thing

also, from a philosophical viewpoint, isn't part of the
program from Deleuze & Protevi, et al, the idea that
the qualities of difference (that lead to the things
we perceive as human emotion, etc) are in fact
inbuilt in matter, including minerals, rather than being a special dispensation
for "human beans" only?





On 12/13/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
> [653.7-9] Old-timers on the crew ... when they first penetrated the
> mountain, prepared to fight frozen rock, had found instead a passionate
> heart, a teeming interiority...
>
> Cf. Fleetwood's take on Africa, on 168:
>
> In Africa he had known saintly lieutenants who were fated to die young, ...
> who would emerge from the green otherworld after months, their cargo
> vanished not only from possession but from memory as well, sick, poisoned,
> too often dying, cursed by shamans, betrayed by magnetic anomalies, racked
> by Guinea worm and malaria, who, despite all, wished only to return to the
> embrace of the interior ...
>
> Or the fate of the Vormance Expedition, eg on 149:
>
> "It deceived us into classifying it as a meteorite, you see ..."
>
> "The object?"
>
> "The visitor."
>
> "Your whole Expedition got hypnotised by a rock? That what you're asking us
> to believe?"
>
>


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