AtDtDA(34): R.U.S.H. (minor spoiler alert)

[Mark Kohut]

F'in BEAUTIFUL FIND..........Through a Glass Darkly.......WONDERFUL...YES, YES. YES!

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: AtDtDA(34): R.U.S.H. (minor spoiler alert)
To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 2:11 AM

Minor spoiler alert: if you haven't read past p. 951, con't at yr own
peril.

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 (10:30:15 -0500), Dave Monroe (against.the.dave at gmail.com)
wrote:
> "smoked goggles"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_a_Glass_Darkly
>
> 1 Corinthians 13:12 contains the phrase
>
> βλεπομεν γαρ αρτι δι εσοπτρου εν
αινιγματι
>
> rendered in KJV,
>
> "For now we see through a glass, darkly."

Nice catch. Of course with smoked goggles, it is always night, unless the day
blasts through.

Note that "smoked goggles" appear three times in the text:

* 402, worn by a time traveller: "... Zoot, in workingman's fatigues,
carpet-slippers, smoked goggles, and a peculiar helmet punctuated over its
surface by not entirely familiar electrical fittings. 'So! Just in from the
cows ...'"

* 951, worn by the-soon-to-be-monk: "Behind a pair of smoked goggles
Cyprian recognized Mihály Vámos, a former hill-climbing champion on the
Hungarian circuit. They had put in some time ..."

* 1085, worn by the Chums: "... They will put on smoked goggles for the
glory of what is coming to part the sky. They fly toward grace."


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