AtD p. 844 'longing so deep'

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut  wrote:
> p. 844.. "longing so deep"....beautiful........as is the whole paragraph....
> what means it?
>

yes, this passage and the page before is a high point
 - actually the pinnacle for me was 842, Cyprian greeting Vesna, probably
many Pynchon readers can relate to this snark-free moment
(not that we're a snarky lot, mind you...but, well, you know...)

Robert Anton Wilson wrote a brilliant passage glossing
a Homer quote "Compassion exploded in his nose"
and there's a manifestation of that here: "possessed, mouth,
eyes and sinuses between, by a smile he could not control"

Salonika is the city whose church Paul addressed in
Thessalonians.  May have to look at those letters...

The Mavri Gata is a little bit of Old East Main...

Vesna as chanteuse prefigures Sasha Gates...

Cyprian, cherishing and wondering at a new form of
self-awareness, sees the sunrise after a night of celebration
and doesn't detach himself from the scene...

"longing so deep that humiliation, pain, and danger
ceased to matter" - in actuality, one might say Cyprian
was tuning himself to that pitch for years...yet didn't
feel fulfillment until he took part in another person's life
in a different way - probably no more painful than some of
the scenes he had already enacted, come to think of it...

"only connect" as Forster wrote...