Two Encyclopedias, Fat and Thin

[John Carvill]

<< "The sun came up a baleful smear in the sky, not quite shapeless, in
fact able to assume the appearance of a device immediately recognizable
yet unnamable, so widely familiar that the inability to name it passed
from simple frustration to a felt dread, whose intricacy deepened almost
moment to moment . . . its name a word of power, not to be spoken aloud,
not even to be remembered in silence."

Interesting posting, that one. . . .>>

One of my favourite pure Pynchon passages from ATD that. The 'baleful
smear' is great enough, but then that dread 'whose intricacy deepened
almost moment to moment', the little twist of humour in the otherwise
nightmarish atmosphere.


Cheers
JC






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