AtDtDA(28): A Figure Walking through the Aftermath

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/16/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Soon the forest was back to normal ..."
>
> Cf. ([albeit] in reverse?) ...
>
>   "Other Units of the Chums of Chance meanwhile chose lateral
> solutions, sidestepping the crisis by passing into metaphorical
> identities, as law-enforcement squads, strolling theatrical companies,
> governments-in-exile of imaginary countries they could nonetheless
> describe in exhaustive, some would say obsessive, detail, including
> entire languages with rules for syntax and usage--or, in the case of
> the crew of the Inconvenience, immersed at Candlebrow in the mysteries
> of Time, drift into the brief aberration in their history known as the
> Marching Academy Harmonica Band." (AtD, Pt. II, p.418ff.)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=120859
>
> "As if in a dream, they would come to recall attending Candlebrow U.
> not as visitors to a summer Conference but as full-time music students
> ..." (AtD, Pt. II, p. 418)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=120860

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