Let's think about Byron the Bulb

[grladams at teleport.com]

Thanks- that was helpful and complicated matters nicely for me. I tried to
connect it more to ATD and 'specially the role of a lonely sculpture
outliving it's creator, it's gaze somehow ironic, painful, as a bold or
hopeful sculpture designed before a catastrophe looks to us afterwards, if
we do willingly look into it that way. But then it expanded for me to
include all art, and how art can be subversive too, and art is repeatedly
touched on in ATD. Hunter's item has passed out of it's painting and left
us behind. Hunter travels though time, so perhaps the missing items were
once there.. I'm still not sure I get the preterition thing. I can honestly
say that's one huge Pynchon element that escapes my grasp or lies just
outside of it.. as soon as I think I "get it" I admit I really do not get
it. I am not sure how to make sense of a group that includes things like a
the dodo and the bulb since the dodo doesn't survive but the bulb does. I
read the links that Erik Burns sent and subbed out the words from Byron to
ATD words like a lonely mineral sculpture, a folly of an attempt to bring a
god back to those grouped under it, and marvelled at how well it still made
sense.

 

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