GR | Spoiler | Bilicero @ The Heath...
Bryan Snyder
wilsonistrey at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 23:30:46 CST 2007
nice.
...and I just realized I spelled Blicero's name wrong in the subject of the
first email...
...at least I learned how his name is spelled.
On 3/7/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> TRA:
> > So a relevant question here would be: why do the
> > doors at the sides of the windmill open and shut
> > quickly? Is there something inside, trying to get
> > out, or someone outside trying to get in? Or is it
> > just the wind?
>
>
> Oh, definitely just the wind. Plain ol' friendly wind. None of your
> multivalent reticulated metaphors there.
>
> ***
>
> "Once transected into the realm of Dominus Blicero[...] Roland too became
> conscious of the wind, as his mortality had never allowed him. Discovered
> it
> so . . . so joyful, that the arrow must veer into it. The wind had been
> blowing all year long, year after year, but Roland had felt only the
> secular
> wind . . . he means, only his personal wind. Yet . . . Selena, the wind,
> the
> wind's everywhere . . . ." (30)
>
> "[Pokler] looked up and saw Kurt Mondaugen. The wind all night, perhaps
> all
> year, had brought them together. This is what he came to believe, that it
> was the wind." (161)
>
> "The Rocket creating its own great wind . . . no wind without both, Rocket
> and atmosphere . . . but inside the venturi, breath-furious and blazing
> breath-always flows at the same unchanging speed . . . can't you really
> see?" (454)
>
> Just the wind.
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20070308/90ab48a6/attachment.html>
More information about the Pynchon-l
mailing list