GR - Persian ceilings

[Mark Kohut]

One layer to me might be, "lids as smooth as a rounded mud ceiling"......with the Persian overtone of "looking to the heavens"


----- Original Message ----
From: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:51:13 PM
Subject: Re: GR - Persian ceilings

Yes, that's what I suspect too.
It's the Anglo-American team of Harvey Speed and Floyd Perdoo in London, May 1945, trying to investigate Slothrop's sex adventures and enjoying Mindless Pleasures on the way. At a greengrocer's Perdoo selects a cantaeloupe,
"in whose intaglio net now, as among craters of the pale moon, a face is indeed emerging, the face of a captive woman with eyes cast downward, lids above as smooth as Persian ceilings. . . ."


2008/1/29, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
I suspect there is a reference to something specific, something more
than surrealism imagery alone.
But I don't have the book here.  Can you provode a bit more context or
a longer quote?

On Jan 29, 2008 10:40 AM, János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
> "the face of a captive woman cast downward, lids above as smooth as Persian ceilings" (GR 270)
>
> Does anyone have any idea how "Persian ceilings" come here? And how smooth they are? Or is this just a piece of surrealism?
>
> Thx,
> Janos
>
>


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