Misc. p. 788 brodyagi

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/23/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The real Shambala is a piece of land where sheep can graze (as was pointed
> out by Dave, I think)....

Again, credit where credit's due ...

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> I might suggest TRP suggests that we miss the real shambalas in our
> life.....................

As we do much else, e.g.,  ...

"'I have only tripped over these picnic baskets,' called out Handyman
Apprentice Miles Blundell, 'the one all the crockery was in, 's what
it looks like....  I guess I did
not see it, Professor.'
   "'Perhaps its familiarity,' Randolph suggested plaintively,
'rendered it temporarily invisible to you.'"   (ATD Pt.I, p. 4)

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   "'Ev'rywhere they've sent us,-- the Cape, St. Helena, America,--
what's the Element common to all?'
   "'Long Voyages by Sea,' replies Mason, blinking in Exhaustion by
now chronick.  'Was there anything else?'
   "'Slaves.  Ev'ry day at the Cape, we lived with Slavery in our
faces,-- more of it at St. Helena,-- and now here we are again, in
another Colony, this time having drawn them a Line bewteen their
Slave-Keepers, and their Wage-Payers, as if doom'd to re-encounter
thro' the World this Public Secret, this shameful Core....  Pretending
it to be ever somewhere else ...'" (M&D, Ch. 71, pp. 692-3)

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Pierre-Yves Petillon, "A Re-cognition of Her Errand into the
Wilderness," New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, ed. Patrick O'Donnell
(New York: Cambridge UP, 1991), pp. 127-70 ...

   "As The Crying of Lot 49 nears its end, the Tristero, which has
been looming up all along, comes dangerously close to losing the
teasing epistemological uncertainty it has retained thus far in the
novel.  As Oedipa stumbles along a railroad track ... she remembers
things she would have seen 'if only she had looked' (179) ....

[...]

   "The Tristero underground has so far been implied to be a motley
crew of eccentrics and bohemian drop-outs, an archipelago of
'isolates' having 'withdrawn' from the Republic, a lunatic fringe in
tatters.  But suddenly, in this last rhetorical leap, the Tristero
broadens its scope to include, in a grand, almost liturgical gesture,
all the outcasts of American history....  By the end of the novel the
Tristero, shadowy as it still remains, is no longer a ghostly
underground (perhaps entirely phantasmatic) but a real, 'embattled'
underground about to come out of the shadows.  No longer hovering on
the edge as a cryptic plot, the 'Other' that the Tristero has thus far
represented is almost revealed as a version of 'the other America'
that Michael Harrington described ....  This America is 'the America
of poverty,' 'hidden today in a way it never was before,'
'dispossesed,' 'living on the fringes, the margin,' as 'internal
exiles.'
    "Looking back on the novel from the perspective of its finale, it
could almost be viewed as a New Deal novel, concerned with gathering
back into the American fold a 'third world' previouly excluded...."
(pp. 149-50)

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Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files (NY:
Routledge, 2000), Chapter 1, "Conspiracy/Culture," Section II,
"Vineland and Visibility," pp. 57-75 ...

"The hidden depths and concelaed realms which might encourage
countercultural fantasies of a conspiratorial 'We-system' (as
Gravity's Rainbow termed it) have thus all but disappeared in the
world of Vineland.  Everything has become exposed (to use a film
metaphor to which the novel itself is highly attuned) ....  On this
reading, then, the final failure of the 1960s underground culture
comes about not through any of the conspiratorial fanstasies of
apocalypse which the counterculture predicted, but because there is
nowhere left to hide.  Everything is visible, and everything is
connected, producing a situation in which a routine sense of paranoia
is paradoxically both no longer necessary, and more vital than ever."
(p. 73)

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