AtDtDA23: Variations on One Recurring Dream

[Dave Monroe]

   "In fact, Frank [...] was plagued at night by variations on one
recurring dream about Webb." (AtD, Pt. III, p. 648)


"'the immanent return of the baby Jesus'"

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_Title#Biblical_connotations


"Rosie's Cantina"

As found in Marty Robbins's 1959 hit song "El Paso" (a song frequently
covered by the Grateful Dead). When the exiled narrator attempts to
return to the cantina, he sees to his right "five mounted cowboys/Off
to my left ride a dozen or more."

... Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina; Music would play and
Felina would whirl.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_647

Marty Robbins, "El Paso" (1959)

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/robbins-marty/el-paso-11889.html


"The L.&O.L."

Law and Order League.  Cf. page 644.

also internet slang for Laughing Out Loud (LOL).  or "Lots of Luck"

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_649


"seventeen mounted cowboys"

?


"variations on one recurring dream"

Cf. ...

Franz Kafka, "Before the Law," The Trial (1925)

http://ww2.coastal.edu/snapp/law.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYugbqI3rQ
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/beforethelaw.htm
http://loydo38.blogspot.com/2005/12/kafka-derrida-before-law.html


"with late-afternoon light draining away"

cf. p.198: "He watched the light over the ranges slowly draining
away", as Webb dies.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_649


"'On your side?'"

Cf. ...

el otro lado (AtD, Pt. III, p. 637)

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_638

"those who've passed over to the other side" (GR, Pt. I, p. 153)

http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153

"But the other side never, in Pynchon's book, relinquishes its pull ..."

http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2007/02/against_the_day.shtml


"the borderlands of the early night [...] prelude and étude to
whatever waited deeper within"

borderlands = frontera (p. 643)

étude

http://m-w.com/dictionary/etude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etude

Cf. (?) ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo