ATDTDA p 714

[Michael Bailey]

brief addendum

a-and, see, the larger environment sort of
recapitulates what the electrode is doing to
the fluids in the abdomen...

714 19 "It is not brain surgery" - an early use of this phrase?
(similarly as "shrink" in COL49)




On 1/29/08, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 714 9 "The new construction always going on somewhere
> in acoustical contact suggested relatively low property values
> out here, which, far from distracting, was by many
> interpreted as erotic."
>
> This is the 3rd of 3 sentence fragments
> (just as Dvindler is the middle entry in a list
> of Theign's Vienna contacts encountered by Cyprian
> but recollected as if by Theign*)
> 1) "non-Teutonics only hiring policy.
> 2) The sexes, perhaps by design, imperfectly segregated...."
>
> I can't parse it to my satisfaction.
> (if "values" is the object of "suggested", there's a
> number disagreement, for one thing)
>
> But, heck, they're sentence fragments anyway!
>
> Nevertheless, the sense is clear: there's a
> vibration coming thru the walls,
> and there are low property values (which by extension,
> means life itself may be fairly cheap);
> and both these factors may excite certain persons.
>
> The "lots of new construction" echoes all the
> new construction in Colorado, too,
> all those builders and dreamers, all too often reduced to rubble...
>
>
> cf 714 34 "The interruptor on the secondary coil
> made a not disagreeable sound, which after a while seemed to blend
> in with the liquid echoes of the larger establishment"
>
> pounding on the walls, lots of water - the opposite
> of the Colonel's echoless room, come to think of it...
>
> The Frankenstein-y ambience of the F.I.P. -- was this thing
> for real?  Pynchonwiki alpha entry for F.I.P. indicates the poster
> made one (sans the rectal probe)
>
> Thanks all for the many extensions and elaborations...
> badly needed, much appreciated!
>
>
> * Maybe Theign had told (bedtime) stories to Cyprian
> of these people.
>


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"There is no way to put it delicately" - Dvindler (ATD p 714)