p. 712

[grladams at teleport.com]

I almost get that this is a cloud that one creates. And whatever song you
have selected is the one that pushes one's drive -- a whistle while you
work. Sometimes when you do get a song stuck in your head, it's good to "go
with it" it makes you get through whatever it is that you're psychically
gearing up for or going through with. I once had the "Little Boxes" opener
to _Weeds_ stuck in my head for days. I just gave in and kep' it going. 

Jill

Original Message:
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From: Bekah Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:37:38 -0800
To: markekohut at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: p. 712


Perhaps ol' Cyprian can't tell where the music is coming from.  He  
keeps thinking he's actually hearing it but ... (Not unlike an  
hallucination.  Not unlike spying and paranoia in general - "Is it or  
isn't it?"   "Just because you're paranoid,  doesn't mean ...."

Yes, there is a big difference,  although  not in the mind of the  
beholder.   You have to get outside of yourself to see the forest  
because there are too many trees within.

just my momentary madness,
Bekah

On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Pynchon is so, so, so.................cleverly hard  
> to ...................understand sometimes.
>
> Obvious premise: every word matters (somehow) or he would not have  
> used it/them.
>
> So, "Cyprian Latewoeed's return to Vienna was accompanied either in  
> or outside
> of his head by the Adagio, etc........(whcih MB has nicely educated  
> us--me, at least--on)
>
> But my question is:
>
> What means "either in or outside of his head"..?
> Where else can C. hear it?.........
> So, he is hearing it internally---and it isn't playing in the real  
> world?
> Or it IS playing in the real  
> world..........................................
>
> My first attempt to gloss is to suggest:.................Cyprian's  
> mind is now one with the
> world of spying and surveillance.....................there's no  
> difference......................
>
> And, somehow to me it is like "masking open skies" previously  
> written.......................
> What is real and what is in the mind and mind's eye.....are now  
> One.....................
>
> Not true in most of History...
>
> ??????????????????????
>
> Please comment.
>
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