atddta 32:summary part 4 of 4

[grladams at teleport.com]

As a contrarian, one could say that England's businessmen, caring not
whether individual trades helped or gummed up Germany's gears (savor the
delay) it's railway straight through (Serbia) the Balkan areas to get a
path through to it's Shambhala?

Original Message:
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From: Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:21:03 -0700
To: markekohut at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: atddta 32:summary part 4 of 4


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?
>

"Our history is an aggregate of last moments" TRP in GR.


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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