Atdtda23: [46.4] Thinking of, 659

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And Dante.
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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> 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
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> 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
> ce
> 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
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> 
> 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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