atddta 32:summary part 4 of 4-prelude to the Burgher King

[grladams at teleport.com]

Speaking of the Burgher King, I'm going to work at the Central library
today, and I'm going to get inside Grove and opera sets and see if there
are any real connections to real productions, (what's this little thread
about the Barber of Seville?) but alas so far I've just translated the
little song about window shopping (there's shop again!). I'm thinking about
economic recessions at the time, and maybe people just weren't buying. The
word Burgher is interpreted best in economics for me, at least. The
Burghers own the means of production. And at the time or just before this
time, there (I'm pretty sure) being panics and runs on banks... Someone
might know more about it and feel free to chime in when I get there. Butt,
oops-I-mean-but it's not until page 912 so just relax and assume the
position while I keep assalting yer hippy asses for a few more pages first.
I have been several cities including Budapest, Prague, Vienna and Nurnberg
& I have seen local theatre and opera productions. WHOOOeeee! Pynchon must
have seen some of the zany and often really bad shows too. Like a Joan of
Arc opera setting in outer space, Mozart operas done with puppets, that
sort of thing. So anyway. 
Jill

Original Message:
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From: Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 04:05:00 -0700 (PDT)
To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: atddta 32:summary part 4 of 4


and I come in the room and say, Yeah, yeah, it's why he has that hope and
idealism that 
  the Nobel Committee wants (under the savage satire) but still probably
won't earn him that
  prize---maybe 'cause he would not 'accept' it?

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
  > grladams wrote:
>
> > It's worth noting the status of this section of the book, and the book
in
> > general, and by my own interpretation, history itself at the time as
> > Pynchon savors it, as being a sum of delays, setbacks, tangents,
flipflops,
> > as if a historical hurtling forward motion switched rails, a pause
button
> > got pushed, whilst intermission music or such played, what do you think?
> >
>

and I'm like
> history as antithetical to personal life, romance, etc?
(& bla bla bla)

-- but, yeah! Scenes like this, a vision like that,
are why P isn't dystopian (imho)...

...a-and you said you were going to talk about the Burgher King soon...


       
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