AtDDtA1: The Stockyards

[Dave Monroe]

On 1/23/07, John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:

> What's that bit from M&D about civilisation (or perhaps a city) only
> coming into existence when the shambles go up, to channel and screen
> death from our view?

"Cities begin upon the day the Walls of the Shambles go up, to screen
away Blood and Blood-letting, Animals' cries, Smells and Soil, from
Residents already grown fragile before Country Realities.  The
Better-Off live as far away as they may, from the concentration of
Slaughter.  Soon, Country Melancholicks are flocking to Town like
Crows, dark'ning the Sun.  Dress'd Meats appear in the market--
Sausages hang against the Sky, forming lines of Text, cryptick
Intestinal Commentary."  (M&D, Ch. 29, p. 289)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0201&msg=64469

Dammit, I should have caught that one.  Thanks!