ATDTDA (23): "it's way too late anymore" (643.10)

[Mark Kohut]

Brilliant find and connections.......

It has always been too late in most of TRPs fiction.....???




----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net>
Cc: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:27:27 PM
Subject: Re: ATDTDA (23): "it's way too late anymore" (643.10)

On 11/28/07, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> "For you-all, it's way too late anymore."

Too Late

"It is too late." 3

"1944 was much too late" 102

" But what now can mitigate this slaughter [of the Dodoes]? It is too late" 110

" the sound too late, after the blast" 138

"Why not renounce the Book then Ned [...] before it's too late" 140

"'Better late than never!' pipes Siggi in his speeded-up midget's voice" 157

"[Leni] wishes she knew of ways to keep it from her child, but already
that may be too late." 158

"death with its very good chances for being Too Late" 239

"it's important...please...look at us...but it's already too late" 312

"Too late, Blobadjian. [...] 'No. I want to pay Tchitcherine what he's
got coming.' 'Too late. You're no part of what he's got coming. Not
any more.'" 355

"Now, too late, when at last [Pökler] wanted to act, there was nothing
to act on." 409

"It was the real moment of conception, in which, years too late, he
became her father." 421

"too late for WW II, but not for Webern" 440

"wartime thinking, ja, ja...but too late to change" 516

"It's too late. Just the mute bed, and the brown ellipse her blood
made on the torn ticking." 518

"too late, miles and changes too late." 524

"It's late ... late." 530

"But it's too late. We're at Peace." 628

"Reminded, too late, of how dependent you are on Them" 694

"Now, too late, the memory of Wimpe, longago IG Farben V-Mann, finds him." 701

"Don't go into the forest when the light is too low, even too late in
the afternoon" 721

"It may be too late to get home." 744

"At long last, after a distinguished career of uttering, "My God, we
are too late!" always with the trace of a sneer [...] because of
course he never arrives too late, there's always a reprieve [...] now,
finally, Sir Denis Nayland Smith will arrive, my God, too late." 751

"'Too late' was never in their programming. They find instead a
moment's suspending of their sanity--but then it's over with, whew,
and it's back to the trail" 752

"'[a plastic bag] wraps around my head, so superfine and transparent I
don't know it's there really until too late. A plastic shroud,
smothering me to my death....'" 756

"gagged throat trying to say too late what he should have said in the
tent last night" 757

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/too-late.html


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