AtDtDA(34): The Convent

[David Payne]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 (14:18:14 -0500), Dave Monroe (against.the.dave at gmail.com) wrote:

> "the unyielding doubleness of everything" [(AtD 957)]
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> E.g., Bilocation
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> Cf. ...
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=PnjN3-pYkH4C
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> http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060932138/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being/index.aspx

And Cf. ...

"Mirrors and copulations are abominable, for the multiply the number of mankind" -- (Borges, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"; see “Collected Fictions, p. 63: http://tinyurl.com/4oa697)

and therefore

"Who by now, his pants down and his shoes still on, had entered, and reentered, and so forth, and the cycle, now exclusively theirs, wet, high, and headlong." (AtD 913) -- see http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0805&msg=126663

and contrast the doubling with the threesome who became a foursome when Ljubica entered the world





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