ATDDTA(11) San Miguel As Nymph's Mirror [305:10-19]

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, keith a great passage to savor.....I love "the ungoverned" and the carful way---with his
  anti-electric light vision---it is the River which throws flashes of light like declarations of innocence.
  Those ranges, that light over them...

Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
  This passage merits savoring:


[305:10-19] He led Frank outside under the chill, imponderable cone 
of an electric bulb high on a pole, and they walked amid the feral 
discourse of the cribs, while a gunshot occurred back down Pacific 
Street, somebody climbed to a rooftop and began to recite "The 
Shooting of Dan McGrew," and nearer at hand single-jackers climaxed 
and ruffled doves wailed, till they were down beside the river, where 
the Row had been squeezed to by more respectable forms of commerce, 
and it was possible to stand with the ungoverned electric town at 
your back, the untraveled night in front, with the San Miguel 
between, brand new out of the mountains throwing flashes of light 
like declarations of innocence.

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cone of an electric bulb high on a pole:
http://tinyurl.com/35mecq

Sounds of animals fucking. Humans shooting, reciting and fucking. 
Facing the uncertainites of night, the reflection of stars and the 
moon in the San Miguel river as it flows from the mountains standing 
in innocent contrast to the lights of the ungoverned town behind, 
foreshadowing the nymph's mirror reference later that same page.





       
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