AtD (836-863) To Begin: From Chumps of Choice blog below

[Mark Kohut]

To: All  I won't be posting much from sources like the pynchon wiki--great for definitions and basslines along the bedrock--- or the Chumps of Choice below, asking you to go to them for what you want or need. I'm going to be more speculative, more interpretative, more allusive, risking stupidity---the Dance Idiotic---waywardness, so challenge me.
   
  If I point to some "meanings' that I think might be there, I do not want to reduce the texts---what's that line from M & D about NOT doing that to knowledge?....To find an allusion or idea buried in TRP is NOT necessarily to imply EVERYTHING ELSE the idea can sometimes imply, we've all learned, I daresay. I needed to learn it.
   
  I'm going to send lots of short posts, rather than consolidated longer ones. I hope it makes it easier to comment. But you'll all know how to spell my name and groan at too many posts.
   
  OK, open up all lines!.....................
   
   
  Chumps of Choice: Inside the Moment          
(pp. 835-848)

Sometimes, if you stare at an idea for too long, you lose the ability to judge whether it's a really brilliant insight or just, you know, duh. Ah, well: in for a penny, in for a pounding...

Salonika during World War I (source)

This chapter contains some of the most straightforward event-by-event narrative that I can recall in a book by Our Boy. But, Our Boy being Our Boy, enormous ideas are being hashed out just below the surface.

I mean, just huge ideas.

We resume in mid-chapter with Cyprian and Danilo, outcast from "steel and parallel tracks," searching for the mysteriously disappeared Bevis Moistleigh. Autumn is coming on.



       
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