AtDtDA(34): A Strange Rock Archway

[Mark Kohut]

Tiresias is key in Pynchon's beloved "The Wasteland", of course..................

--- On Sat, 6/21/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Subject: AtDtDA(34): A Strange Rock Archway
To: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 4:26 PM

"... they came upon a strange rock archway twenty or thirty feet high
..." (AtD, Pt. IV, p. 955)


Sliven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliven


"the Halkata"

http://noe2002.hit.bg/index1.html

Halkata (the Ring) represents a rock opening with the shape of an
isosceles triangle with sloping base and top pointing at the sky. It
is situated in the "Sinite Kamani" national park and is one of the
country's most fragile rock phenomena.

http://www.purebulgaria.com/en_version/cities.php?city_id=316

955; aka Hulkata, aka "The Ring" – a stone arch that Reef, Yashmeen
and Lubjica pass beneath. The Ring is located on the Karandila, a
hilltop 1050m above sealevel in Sliven, a town in southeast Bulgaria
in the eastern part of the Thracian plain. It is a rock protrusion
with an interesting, yet peculiar hole in the center. According to
myth, one would change gender upon passing through the ring.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=H

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=176427&level=nat

Cf. ...

Tushuktash

764; "a rock with a hole in it"; "great stone Arch" 769;
Shipton's
Arch, also known as Tushuk Tash (Pierced Rock in Uyghur) and
(Simplified Chinese: 天洞; Traditional Chinese: 天洞; Pinyin: Tiāndòng;
Wade-Giles: Tiandong), meaning Hole in Heaven in Chinese, is a
conglomerate natural arch, located to the West-northwest of Kashgar,
in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region....

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=T

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0802&msg=124733


"women, who appear to be without power, in reality run the show"

Cf. ...

In Greek mythology, Tiresias (also transliterated as Teiresias) was a
blind prophet of Thebes, famous for being transformed into a woman for
seven years....

[...]

... Tiresias was drawn into an argument between Hera and her husband
Zeus, on the theme of who has more pleasure in sex: the man, as Hera
claimed; or, as Zeus claimed, the woman, as Tiresias had experienced
both. Tiresias revealed woman's greatest secret: that she receives the
greater pleasure .  "Of ten parts a man enjoys one only."  Hera
instantly struck him blind for his impiety. Zeus could do nothing to
stop her, but he did give Tiresias the gift of foresight and a
lifespan of seven lives....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias


krâchma

Pronounced like CRUTCH-mah. Bulgarian: tavern.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_946-975#Page_956


      
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