Atdtda23: [46.4] Thinking of, 659

[Mark Kohut]

see the Beatrices in V.       


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From: "grladams at teleport.com" <grladams at teleport.com>
To: isread at btinternet.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:05:35 AM
Subject: RE: Atdtda23: [46.4] Thinking of, 659

These hauntings -- so weird. I typed in Beatrice into the waste archive,
and reached this (below) as the first result. According to the 1900 Census
George M Pynchon Sr’s first wife was Lillian, who was born in Illinois.
They were married and living in Chicago, while he was 37 & she was 29 years
old. They had one daughter, Beatrix who was Later spelled Beatrice, in
1924, (Just for context, OBA's father would have been ~17 years old) there
is record of a transatlantic ocean trip where all three travelled together
from Southampton England, to New York. George Sr was 62, George Jr was 21,
Beatrice was 26. Featured in numerous social and charity register type
articles, she was a bright light of a person indeed, loved by many. She'd
see her brother George Jr, and her someday to be husband Stafford Hendrix
who had fought in WWI, die young and tragic deaths. 

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9312&msg=159&keywords=beatri
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Review of PIHKAL, Tyrone Slothrop

Because analogies with the ghost-life exist, this recurrence
phenomenon is known, in the jargon, as `haunting.'  Whereas other sorts of
hallucinations tend to flow by, related in deep ways that aren't accessible
to the casual dopefiend, these Oneirine hauntings show a definite narrative
continuity, as clearly as, say, the average Reader's Digest article.   Often
they are so ordinary, so conventional - Jeaach calls them `the dullest
hallucinations known to psychopharmacology' - that they are only recognized
as hauntings through some radical though plausible violation of possibility:
the presence of the dead, journeys by the same route and means where one
person will set out later but arrive earlier, a printed diagram which no
amount of light will make readable.  ...On recognizing that he is being
haunted, the subject enters immediately into `phase two,' which, though
varying in intensity from subject to subject, is always disagreeable: often
sedation (0.6 mg atropine subcut.) will be necessary, even though Oneirine
is classified as a CNS depressant.




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From: Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:15:44 -0000
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Atdtda23: [46.4] Thinking of, 659


659.36-37] "What could you have been thinking?" he inquired. It was a voice
Reef had not heard before but recognised nonetheless.

Cf. Lew's Bomber-related experience on 240-241:

Pinned to a cork board on the wall Lew saw a photograph of a shadowy figure
in white with a cricketer's bag, posed against one of those noteworthy
arrays of cloud the Headingly ground was known for. The face was blurred,
but Lew took a few steps back till it came more in focus.

"You recognise him?"

"No ... thought for a minute I might."

"You recognise him." Slyly nodding as if to himself.


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