AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 15:17:42 CST 2007
"The duo appeared to be making for a nearby patch of woods, now and
then casting apprehensive looks upward at the enormous gasbag of the
descending Inconvenience, quite as if it were some giant eyeball,
perhaps that of Society itself, ever scrutinizing from above, in a
spirit of constructive censure. But by the time Lindsay could remove
the optical instrument from the moist hands of Miles Blundell [...]
the indecorous couple had vanished among the foliage, as presently
would this sector of the Republic into the falling darkness." (AtD,
Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 13)
"quite as if it were some giant eyeball"
Odilon Redon. (French, 1840-1916). Eye-Balloon. 1878.
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3AI%3A3&page_number=12&template_id=1&sort_order=1
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/redon/iballoon.jpg.html
http://www.odilonredon.net/oeilballon.html
Odilon Redon. (French, 1840-1916). L'Oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se
dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward
Infinity). (1882).
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3AI%3A2&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1
http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/amico760759-71109.html
The Balloon as Metaphor in the Early Work of Odilon Redon
http://www.jstor.org/view/03919064/ap050025/05a00110/0
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114028/
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=odilonredon&mode=filmmaker
The Odilon Redon lithograph appears on the cover of the 1998 Vintage
paperback edition of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, whose first
unforgettable chapter triggers the novel with a ballooning incident
leaving the reader dangling over the edge of suspense and suspension.
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_13
Pynchon backs McEwan in 'copying' row
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1965130,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/12/05/nwriter06big.gif
"perhaps that of Society itself ..."
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/superego.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego,_superego,_and_id#Super-ego
http://cartome.org/panopticon1.htm
http://cartome.org/panopticon2.htm
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/
"... in a spirit of constructive censure"
Cf. ...
".. my faithful readers ..." (AtD, Pt. I, p. 3)
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114273
Faithful to whom? Or, rather, what? Inc. the (presumed) author ...
"as presently would this sector of the Republic"
E.g., ...
Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City:
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that
Changed America. New York: Crown, 2003.
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/devilinthewhitecity/home.html
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0607&msg=103050
But what else? Again, though, note "declining light" to "falling darkness" ...
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