ATDTDA have the chumps decoded the q-weapon?

[Henry]

Yah, I like it, but in ATD cameras and film are identified with the most
Horton-Hatches-an-Egg-positive father figure in all Pynch-lit.

(I have a new Moto Q cell phone.  It has a camera in it....  Nah, never
mind.)

HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm 

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:59 AM
To: Michael Bailey

I just want to add what everyone might be taking for granted here,
but I have been told more than once to 'state the obvious'...
(and not just by smart p-listers. ;-)
 
Pynchon hates cameras...............................................

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2008 2:51:16 AM
Subject: ATDTDA have the chumps decoded the q-weapon?

Froim the Chumps of Choice Blog:

The weapon, as described on pg. 559, may well be the same enigmatic
object which Miles saw the Others pointing at him on pg. 417. We see
that it is small, with an eyepiece, an interior mirror, set in a
leather case and can be slung over the shoulder from a strap. Sounds
to me like a weird SLR camera. That it has been sold to Woevre by
someone who shares a name with a giant photographic film and paper
company, only adds to the impression.

Indeed, as Nebulae describes the action of the w term as something
that crosses space and travels with time, one is put in mind of a
photograph, something which crosses the three elements of space the
instant it is created and then travels its own way through time. When
shooting, the weapon produces a flash which briefly blinds Woevre, and
another parallel with an SLR can't be ignored.

In describing the inner working of the thing, (565:37 - 566:5) Umeki
indulges in what sounds to me as splendid nonsense.

I'll note that both Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray produced what they
called enigmatic objects, odd surrealist sculptures which to this day
resist interpretation.