Fw: AtD (37) p.1059-1062. Other possibilities,Time Past, silver and a snowball

[Mark Kohut]

Reminiscent of: His nostalgia was palpable, and another Pynchon line seemed apt: “Monuments, buildings, plaques were remembrances only; but in Valletta remembrances seemed almost to live.”

--- On Fri, 8/1/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fw: AtD (37) p.1059-1062. Other possibilities,Time Past, silver and a snowball
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 7:32 PM
> Misc. from "Bend Sinister", by V. Nabokov:
> narrator, one Adam Krug says: 
> 'Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can
> create the past'" 
> ______________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> Merle can make a kind of silent film show of a life from a
> photograph....with different choices............
> 
> Lew wants to see Troth, then some real poetry from TRP
> showing what the passing of time does
> to human beings, his ex------Troth.........."the
> scumbling of time" [GR]............he hoped he could
> even hear her and imagines he does....Lew's Remembrance
> of Things Past..............
> 
> P 1061--1062
> "I wish it could be more, 's all" says
> Merle...who takes a photo of Dally he has and runs it to the
> present, seeing her change and then exist NOW............a
> kind of ether-transmitted movie from
> Time Past to the present..............................like
> a TV transmission.................like the new
> transatlantic cable that can be seen through from NY to
> England...................
> 
> And her silent lips were speaking as if to him as if she
> could see him, too. Almost communication but i'sn't
> "more'.... 
> 
> Note that snowball, maybe hanging in the air in the past,
> alluding to the opening of M & D? TRP likes thrown
> snowballs. 
> 
> 
> Robin, Rue De Depart, the Chums and you.
> 
> 
> 
> Merle can make a kind of silent film show of a life from a
> photograph....with different choices............
> 
> Lew wants to see Troth, then some real poetry from TRP
> showing what the passing of time does
> to human beings, his ex------Troth.........."the
> scumbling of time" [GR]............he hoped he could
> even hear her and imagines he does....Lew's Remembrance
> of Things Past..............
> 
> P 1061--1062
> "I wish it could be more, 's all" says
> Merle...who takes a photo of Dally he has and runs it to the
> present, seeing her change and then exist NOW............a
> kind of ether-transmitted movie from
> Time Past to the present..............................like
> a TV transmission.................like the new
> transatlantic cable that can be seen through from NY to
> England...................
> 
> And her silent lips were speaking as if to him as if she
> could see him, too. Almost communication but i'sn't
> "more'.... 
> 
> Note that snowball, maybe hanging in the air in the past,
> alluding to the opening of M & D? TRP likes thrown
> snowballs. 
> 
> 
> Robin, Rue De Depart, the Chums and you.
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 8/1/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: AtD (37) p.1059-1062. Other
> possibilities,Time Past, silver and a snowball
> > To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 7:09 AM
> > P 1059   
> > 
> > When I finish the section, I think it is clear.
> Jardine was
> > not dead--it had not happened yet---it was one of
> those
> > possible futures foretold....she vanishes (in a plane
> over
> > TRPs dangerous things) over the desert creating a
> powerful
> > shaped silence. 
> > 
> > Another reading?
> > 
> > Troth: Lew's wife who left him, of course, back on
> page
> > 38
> > 
> >  \ˈträth, ˈtrȯth, ˈtrōth, or with th\ 
> > 
> > Function: 
> > noun 
> > Etymology: 
> > Middle English trouth, from Old English trēowth —
> more
> > at truth 
> > Date: 
> > 12th century 
> > 1: loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity
> <pledged my
> > troth>2: one's pledged word <I don't
> remember
> > the details or, by my troth, even the gist — Stanley
> > Elkin>; also : betrothal
> >   
> > P 1060
> >  
> > 'different tracks'.......'other
> > possibilities'...
> >  C.T.R. [in the real world, there is a Center for
> > Turbulence Research at Stanford w/ NASA. ]
> >  
> > silver can grow like a tree? .....inanimate replacing
> the
> > animate?..........but Doddling [Dawdling; reliable
> teller?]
> > says silver is alive...........................
> >  
> > give me 500 words on silver in AtD, cause I need
> 'em to
> > understand.
> >  
> > Merle can make a kind of silent film show of a life
> from a
> > photograph....with different choices............
> > 
> > Lew wants to see Troth, then some real poetry from TRP
> > showing what the passing of time does
> > to human beings, his ex------Troth.........."the
> > scumbling of time" [GR]............he hoped he
> could
> > even hear her and imagines he does....Lew's
> Remembrance
> > of Things Past..............
> >  
> > P 1061--1062
> > "I wish it could be more, 's all" says
> > Merle...who takes a photo of Dally he has and runs it
> to the
> > present, seeing her change and then exist
> NOW............a
> > kind of ether-transmitted movie from
> > Time Past to the
> present..............................like
> > a TV transmission.................like the new
> > transatlantic cable that can be seen through from NY
> to
> > England...................
> >  
> > And her silent lips were speaking as if to him as if
> she
> > could see him, too. Almost communication but
> i'sn't
> > "more'.... 
> >  
> > Note that snowball, maybe hanging in the air in the
> past,
> > alluding to the opening of M & D? TRP likes thrown
> > snowballs. 
> > 
> > 
> > Robin, Rue De Depart, the Chums and you.