ATDTDA skipping around, tenuous connections, febrile speculation...

[Michael Bailey]

flighty tonight!  Tomorrow I will treat 10 pages as
soberly and chastely as I can,
but tonight I'm'a skip around and shoot off my big fat virtual mouth...

Slothrop - comes from the Berkshires
experiences fearsome events-to-come as sexual stimuli
draws attention
is selected for special project
plumbs the depths of his psyche via drugs
revolts, rejects, runs away from the organization
seeks self-knowledge
disappears into the wallpaper

Cyprian - comes from the wallpaper (which has a math meaning that
may apply)
conflates fear with sex
draws attention
plumbs the depths of his psyche via sex
doesn't actually "seek self-knowledge" per se - but gains
a kind of competence in survival
and disappears into - well, we shall see...

704 - Oscar Wilde talking to Mr Waverly...

I dunno, all this stuff rings really true to me on a surface
level, reminding me of Evelyn Waugh, the man from UNCLE
and other spy thrillers...
which are books and movies I've cozied up to, derived comfort &
sustenance from --
and now seeing scenes from these genres mingling,
embedded into ATD's world, developed, fleshed out (as
Cyprian too is becoming with the pastries),
it's pretty cool...
still not perceiving beacons - yet...

712 - Mozart K 488 - this number has some points of similarity
to the uke piece that Miles's Trespasser friend played, in the melody line
(again you could sing "a day, in the life, of a fool" to it
without having to distort much if at all -- just the first line, tho)

710 - "how, vecchio fazool, can you fail to see the connection?"
...eg, betw sodomitic rivalries and international intrigue.
(vecchio fazool - old bean)  -

this is a presentation, display, or trial (show trial?)(trial
balloon?) of a theory
that I remember thinking very insightful, years and years ago:
aggression is the result of repressed homosexual urges.

It's one of those articles of gospel that
the hipsters all knew (others were "cocaine isn't addictive",
"entrapment on the part of the police is illegal", "the United
States isn't the world's policeman", "smoking pot is bound to
be legal soon", "chicks dig [various things]"...
oh, there were many!)
and carried around in the pockets of our bellbottoms with us.

At that point it was obvious that once these things
were widely known, the world would be different and better.

Cyprian's context is quite different: sodomitic rivalries
are quite real to him.  Since they rock his world,
it's natural that he sees the fate of nations
moving to the same beat...






-- 
"...there are not only landmarks, but also anti-landmarks - for every
beacon, an episode of intentional blindness." (Professor Svegli, p248)