A Show Of Hands

[Joseph Tracy]

The truth is that the deep analysis has gotten pretty shallow, not  
much analysis of the text going on.  The arguments are still too  
loose and  personal and being avoided. I like what is going on in  
these pages, not a bad patch to me.. The picture we  often get of  
this phase of history is mental pablum. P is showing us we can be  
like caricatures of Japanese tourists taking snaps of what we've  
already been told is important or we can wander into the messy  
detritus and backalleys and listen in on conversations and get a  
sense of the weirdness, warfare and terror and understand our roots.

For me the effect is mentally transformative  and that's why I read  
and reread this head fucking monster. Robin is one of a handful with  
the time and energy  to keep up the intensity. I am in my busy season  
as a restorer of stained glass windows and soon  to start teaching  
summer classes,  (www.brooksideglassworks.com ) so mostly a lurker  
looking for something that gets me going. I frequent the Chumps of  
choice where the pace is faster and the discussion feels more focused  
on the and open ended as to interpretation.




On Jun 12, 2007, at 9:03 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Terrance hasn't shown up, and the usually omniscent Tim Strzechowski
> appears to be on haitus. The assigment list for AtDTDA follows. Here's
> my question. Who's on board? (as I say this, in typical Frank Capra
> fashion, I unabashedly raise my hand). Who's gonna continue this
> trek on through Shambalah? Do we need a break? Do we need new
> blood? Should I go back to quilting bees? Is it really all about Paul
> Nightingale's superb work? Is Keith (who did a really fine turn and
> was the other half of 209-239) right in saying that the previous patch
> was comparetively barren? Is there some allegorical point in that
> barrenness, or is it just a bad patch? How does this all apply to
> Dwight Eddins concepts concerning Gnosticism in Pynchon?  What
> do you make of the notion of coupling Revelation and Illumination
> to Explosions in GR & AtD? Who do I have to blow to get a drink in
> this dump?
>
> Against the Day: The Deep Analysis (ATDTDA)
> (Touching the Dog's Arse)
>
> 1/22 - ATDTDA (1):  3 - 31 --  Dave Monroe
>
> 2/5   - ATDTDA (2):  31 - 61 --  Tim Strzechowski
>
> 2/19 - ATDTDA (3):  61 - 96 --  Monte Davis
>
> 3/5   - ATDTDA (4):  97 - 126 -- Michel Ryckx
>
> 3/19 - ATDTDA (5):  126 - 155 --  John Carvill
>
> 4/2   - ATDTDA (6):  156 - 186 --   Bekah
>
> 4/16 - ATDTDA (7):  186 - 208 --  Peter Petto
>
> 4/30 - ATDTDA (8):  209 - 239 --  The Great Quail
>
> 5/14 - ATDTDA (9):  239 - 269 --  Jasper Fidget
>
> 5/28 - ATDTDA (10):  269 - 295 --  Keith McMullen
>
> 6/11 - ATDTDA (11):  296 - 326 -- Terrance
>
> 6/25   - ATDTDA (12):  326 - 351 --  David Morris
>
> 7/9     - ATDTDA (13):  351 - 376 --  Joseph Tracy
>
> 7/23   - ATDTDA (14):  376 - 405 --  Mike Bailey
>
> 8/6     - ATDTDA (15):  406 - 428 --  Dave Monroe
>
> 8/20   - ATDTDA (16):  431 - 459 --  Ande
>
> 9/3     - ATDTDA (17):  460 - 488 --  Tim Strzechowski
>
> 9/17   - ATDTDA (18):  489 - 519 --  John Bailey
>
> 10/1   - ATDTDA (19):  519 - 547 --  Robin
>
> 10/15 - ATDTDA (20):  548 - 577 --  Michel
>
> 10/29 - ATDTDA (21):  577 - 604 -- Jarek Hirny
>
> 11/12 - ATDTDA (22):  605 - 636 -- Paul Nightingale
>
> 11/26 - ATDTDA (23):  637 - 667 -- Paul Nightingale, Dave Monroe,  
> and Tim
> Strzechowski
>
> So line up, sign up and re-enlist today! 'Cause we need more
> schooling, for more students, for More Science High!