atdtda:31 pgs 887-888 Reef's dream

[rich]

there's also the scene in M&D to end a chapter where the end of the
coach trip lands you in a similar void of darkness

rich

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A-and, Monte, this reminds me of when you focussed on the pampas quote about
>  existential fear (so to speak. My labeling and possible misuse of the
> quote.).
>
> is P here-- as there?--- layering in the VOID as the fearful backdrop
> against which we
> start painting on cave walls and trying to understand why we exist?....
> "it's always dark or we wouldn;t need light"...?
>
> Some kind of truth usually comes in dreams in Pynchon, right? so, here too?
>
> Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Bekah quotes:
>
> > 887.23 - .33  ".. it was darker out here than he had any idea of."
>
> Just roll that around your mind, foax. It's perfect Mountain West idiom,
> wouldn't look a bit out of place in Cormac McCarthy, but in Pynchon's
> inflection it leans farther over deeper voids. Metaphysically astute in
> new-penny old words...
>
>
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