D&G weekend breather

[kevin cummiskey]

Bettle is this the breather? then please refrain from sending the thesis to my account.

--- On Sun, 8/24/08, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: D&G weekend breather
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 9:12 AM
> This quote:
> 
> "All we are saying is" [give peace a chance might
> have been in the
> back of their minds when they wrote this] "that the
> identity of
> effect, the continuity of
> genera, the totality of all BwO's, can be obtained on
> the plane of
> consistency only
> by means of an abstract machine capable of covering and
> even creating it,
> by assemblages capable of plugging into desire" [and
> even creating it?]
> "of effectively taking charge of desires, of assuring
> their continuous
> connections
> and transversal tie-ins.  Otherwise the BwO's of the
> plane will remain separated
> by genus, marginalized, reduced to means of bordering,
> while on the
> "other plane" the emptied or cancerous doubles
> will triumph."
> 
> Now I would be the first to admit I'm not doing a
> thorough read,
> or grasping every nuance, but this is similar to a call for
> unity.
> 
> I'm reminded of the passage in Shea and Wilson's
> _Illuminatus_
> where Stella Maris tells Simon Moon, "perhaps what you
> are looking
> for is an organization of the imagination."
> (Simon Moon was a typical "red-diaper" leftist
> who suffered the gas
> and truncheons
> of the Chicago version of the Events of 1968 and made
> networking
> connections there which took him into a very different
> dimension of radicalism)
> 
> also, that bit about the "doubles" seems like it
> might possibly be
> germane to AtD.
> 
> Finally, this "plane of consistency" is a concept
> I hope to recur to
> both in the rest of the  twitterpated commentary I'm
> churning out
> (but hey, the text does seem to admire
> Burroughs/Gysin's cut-and-paste
> methods, so I didn't think I was too far out of line,
> or "off the plane
> of consistency" in applying them to the Becoming
> chapter...)
> and maybe in other texts such as Anti-Oedipus or even AtD
> 
> --
> "He ain't crazy, he's a-makin'
> pottery" - Finley Peter Dunne
> 
> -- 
> "He ain't crazy, he's a-makin'
> pottery" - Finley Pater Dunne