ATDTDA (2): Proust in ATD? (pp. 1 - 44)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Yeah, I changed the subject heading, 'scuse me 
whils't I dribble on over to a mondegreen. . . .

My point (and I do have one) is that there is a strong link between 
"Against the Day" and In "Search of Lost Time", for "In Search of Lost Time" 
is the overarching title of Proust's magnum (and I don't mean maybe) 
opus, not Remembrance of Things Past, which is Moncrieff 
cross-referencing Shakespeare:

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

. . . .and that just ain't "In Search of Lost Time", a work that reads 
as a microscopic examination of the detritus of a vanished era, 
scrying the trinkets of a lost aristocracy and and giving a "close 
reading" to the oftimes mindless pleasures of the very rich and 
the well-connected, during the end of at least a few empires.

"Against the Day" does include elements from all of Pynchon's other 
books to such a degree as to effectivly knit them together into one 
giant novel (just as all the internal cross-referencing in Mahler's 
symphonies makes them all part of one giant symphony). The 
title "In Search of Lost Time" could apply just as well to "Against 
the Day", perhaps---what with all the time travel and wanderings 
into hitherto imaginary lands, like Shambala, 1920's Hollywood 
(furthur transposed into early Pulp Fiction) and the final. weird, 
Bi-Location of modern-day Anarchist types upon Paris in 1920, 
just around the corner from Marcel,---Proust's title applies to an 
even greater degree to Pynchon's novel. I know there must be a 
deeper well here, and if nothing else, Pynchon shares at least 
one religious devotion with Proust:

"if God does indeed reside in the details, Proust 
worshipped like a man on fire. "

Mark Kohut:
This is a great find re 'dayness' and ATD including History, etc. 
 ....in many ways ATD is TRP's Remembrance of Things Past, yes?