Book of Revelations

[Mr Haney]

interesting schtuff from robin
interspersed with my rambling responses> My understanding is that Thomas Pynchon's > family tree is full of heretics. My reading of the > author's writings indicates that Mr. Pynchon's> literary output is profoundly heretical, and > requires understanding of some rather occult > goings on. 
 
well, for it to be heresy there has to be an
establishment persecuting it...
Galileo was accused of heresy but the Church
eventually came around a few centuries later
_Meritorious_ may indeed become accepted someday...
ATD may be canonical...
(but right now where I sit, we're reasonably free of speech
so it isn't necessarily "heresy" to me so much
as "some weird & fascinatin' sh*t"
 
 
> that you should proceed with extreme caution.
pretty much always good advice
 
> On the tree of life, Temperance [called Art in the Thoth Tarot Deck]> is the card closest to the center of the tree. One might call it an angel's> p.o.v. Click on the various trees of life to expand the view.> > http://tinyurl.com/2b6xyh
 
from the link:
I like to think of the Tree correspondences as "memory theatre", as there is great utility in this idea, and it is a beautiful and accessible entry-point for a modern person to enter into an archiac aspect of right-brain science: a world of images, associations, symbols, inarticulate connections, and qualitative thinking.
The definitive text is The Art of Memory by Francis Yates. "
 
the Art of Memory figures heavily in one of my Other
favorite books: _Aegypt_ by John Crowley (unsolicited testimonial)
> start of the Chums adventures, when Miles trips over the picnic > basket. That 'Organization' alluded to is a parody version of the > elephant in the room, Thomas' Pynchon's 80000 lb. gorilla, > King Kong himself, Pynchon & Company.> 
 
well, mutatis mutandis, while not spurning a P's-eye view of
the book and of the scene...
a Platonic reader, such as myself, Mr Haney, might relate
to this as how the Haney organization, an incompletely understood
power at that point (a Desk the niches of which aren't even to this
day completely explored, like the desk in M&D), had set his young self
up at a tender age,
in adventures of a similar ilk...with allies, missions, maybe even
enmities, supply lines, mysterious lines of communication... tableware
stamped with the Haney pattern, so to say, even blazers
and mottoes for special occasions...
this is perhaps something to which most people fortunate
enough to be part of a family (if not necessarily a "Family")
can relate 
(if we simply set the metaphor dials of "Inconvenience's travels"
to "K-12 schooldays" for instance...)
> The elephant in the room is the Pynchon Family itself, we could have tripped > over it if only we looked, and years ago too. The beginning of the twenties, > when the Chums sign the agreement with 'the Girls' is where free access to > the New York Times archive ends with a December 29th notice on > upcoming Debutante's ball: http://tinyurl.com/23wbrq
 
got to be a plot...as the Russians said in "Bye Bye Birdie",
"kapitalistische komplotski"
 
a narrowminded interpreter (single vision & Fig Newton's sleep)
might guess that you were trying to relate the Chums nups
and pre-nups to the relinquishment of financial primacy
-- leaving the male-dominated world of empire and embarking
on a closer walk with "die ewige Weibliche" --
however, that is just something that I noticed fluttering by, I venture...
> When the dust settled, Pynchon & Company was $40,000,000 in the hole. > E.A. Pierce was left to basically action off the estate. E.A. Pierce joined > Merril Lynch, during the early 40's and then was Merrill, Lynch, Fenner, > Pierce and Smith. Some of you may be old enough to remember recall > Television ads for this very large investment house.> 
 
Grandma Haney used to call it "Merrill Lynch Pierce
Fenner and Bean"...her sister was a pioneering female stockbroker...
back in the day...
> So the history of Pierce picking up the Pynchon Co. for a song is> encoded in what sound like Tax Stamps, which would be found > on deeds of property. But why call the estate of the Pynchons, > a small holding within the the E. A. Pierce empire 'W.A..S.T.E.'?> Because of the Waste Doctrine, Pynchon v. Stearns, mass 1846.> If you go to page 95 of this book: http://tinyurl.com/2gb8aa> you will find out why it was called 'the crying of Lot 49'.> > http://tinyurl.com/2gb8aa
 
ok, quite possible...also, artistic possibilities (assuming
a certain artistic distancing?) in "downfall brought on 
thru the movies"  ("video killed the radio star")
details quite likely fascinating...
ie, in general with this sorta thing
a) there might be a tragic flaw or vulnerability
b) somebody might have pissed somebody off
c) maybe even romantic triangles?
my interest is piqued...
please keep expatiating and expounding!
 
trying to tie it together: looking at the document
(zzzz...ungh...sorry, where was I? Legal and philosophical
documents are tough for me) it seems to indicate
that if you are a tenant, there are certain things you may
not do to the leased property -- even if they are "improvements"
 
now, is there a direct, left-brain connection between
 
a) the House of Pynchon trying to invest in motion pictures
and apparently getting their Ars Longa handed to them
 
and b) the Waste Doctrine?
 
You would have to view them as renters of their fortune
and the movie-investment as an "improvement" they
made over the objections of whoever they were renting from...
--- more of a right-brain correspondence, I think ---
but not unworthy of note 
(especially if Robin connects a few more dots...)
 
ah well, I'm way over my quota for today
 
Happy thanksgiving!
 
May snowballs star your walls in kindly patterns!
 
 
 
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