from The Recognitions

[rich]

Hi all--for the next round of discussions--apologies for bailing on
hosting. workload's a bitch.

there is a veiled reference to Gaddis' The Recognitions on pg, 669 of ATD:

Kit's rectal alert at the mention of Scarsdale Vibe who is in Europe
buying art;  Vibe is quite like Recktal Brown, one of the heavys in
The Recognitions, uber-capitalist buyer/seller of art who, like Vibe,
persuades an innocent, Wyatt Gwyon (Kit) to sell his soul, so to
speak, by working with him.

some other notes:

667-action is at Swiss Sanatorium

Reef meets Yash 1st time

668
Yash and Kit discussion--cf Mann's magic mountain-- Hans Castorp and
French woman--missed/mixed signals romance?

Reef reckless, Frank reasonable, Kit religious--Brothers K no
doubt--Kit=Misha, Frank=Ivan, Reef=Dimitri?--not an exact
correspondence, just a thought


on pg. 673
kit dreams of webb at family social gathering--like vineland soiree w/
beckers/traverses??
Webb haunting future in Vineland? which after all is a book obsessed
with ghosts of all sorts


675

Kit's 2nd dream-
magic bullet theory-n and n+1--is this another veiled reference to JFK?

Rich





On Jan 10, 2008 7:34 AM, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> That's pretty hilarious, actually.
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> > 'The cosmos of Sir James Jeans, reigned over by a deity whose symbol is the
> > square root of minus one, where in closed rooms they argue the weight of the
> > crucified man sufficient to cause strangulation, and the Irish mathematician
> > Sir William Rowan Hamilton calculates that Jesus in assumption, being drawn
> > up through space at a moderate rate, would not yet have reached the nearest
> > of the fixed stars'. P. 301
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