the radiant hour

[Dave Monroe]

On 6/29/07, bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was reading The Beautiful and Damned and came across the chapter title of
> The Radiant Hour and remembered it vaguely from toward the end of GR as a
> thing that a team must recover. Have I mixed up the names or has anyone else
> done any more with this connection?

"the Radiant Hour, which has been abstracted from the day's 24 by
colleagues of the Father" (GR, Pt. III, p. 674)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200104/ai_n8929956/pg_8

http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&pg=PA674&lpg=PA674&dq=%22radiant+hour%22+pynchon&source=web&ots=lpw7LaNEfH&sig=R6ryjWzlxogwjWh6KyBcaO4megU

Cf. ,,,

"Were the radiant curtains just about to swing open? What would the
ghosts of the North, in their finery, have to show him?" (GR, Pt. I,
p. 29)

Floundering Four, the

674-80; (1) Myrtle Miraculous - performs miracles--"love is the only
miracle that's beyond her"; (2) Maximilian - Negro with natural
rhythms ("all rhythms, up to and including the cosmic")--"never. . .go
any further into danger than its dapperness"; (3) Marcel - "a
mechanical chessplayer" ("exquisite 19th-century brainwork")--"much
too literal with humans"; (4) Slothrop. Each is gifted and flawed by
his gift. Mission: rescue the Radiant Hour.

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/f.html

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book Two
CHAPTER I
THE RADIANT HOUR

http://www.torreywang.com/ebooks/thebeautifulanddamned/2chapter1.html

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volume 2 - Part 1
By Burton, Sir Richard Francis
BOOK TWO
THE RADIANT HOUR

http://books.google.com/books?id=A6iUf1U5oC4C&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=%22radiant+hour%22&source=web&ots=6U_PvBqjp5&sig=VYgUZYMm8VCoyNWg5ILvfZiLrBg

O radiant Hour. A Marriage Song, organ or piano accompaniment &
obbligati for violin, 'cello & harp; words & music by F. Stevenson.
Opus 68 (1914)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/radiant-Marriage-accompaniment-obbligati-Stevenson/dp/B0000D3PG6

Loves Radiant Hour. Vals canción. Letra de Helen Boardman Knox (1928)

http://www.terra.es/personal2/danubio/sousaobras.htm

FATHER ABRAHAM For those who could not see, and blind could not love;
You who arriving brought in that radiant hour Which destiny reserved
for you....

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0885-6818(194431)5%3A1%3C9%3AFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

Flower of women, but her Firstborn is mankind's one flower:
He the Sun lights up all moons thro' their radiant hour. (Before 1866)

http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Notes_On_Carols/lo_how_a_rose_eer_blooming.htm

The Radiant Hour: Youth and American Culture (2000)

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/amatas/workshop/campbellbio.htm

Hm ...

We showed up once at a party, not a masquerade party, in disguise--he
as Hemingway, I as Scott Fitzgerald, each of us aware that the other
had been through a phase of enthusiasm for his respective author....

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/farina.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_farina.html

But what IS the origin of that phrase?  Meanwhile ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0007&msg=47406

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0009&msg=49820

http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/