AtDTDA 32: Fantasia on a Fantasia of Thomas Tallis Pt. 3

[Bryan Snyder]

There's a review of AtD out there that pretty much said that Pynchon has
reached the level of Cervantes, Dante, Swift (?), etc... With AtD.


..sort of related.


On 5/15/08 5:40 PM, "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>  robinlandseadel wrote:
>> 
>>  Charles Hollander notes the connections between Dante and
>>  Pynchon, but I think Dante's presence is more like elaboration
>>  or decoration
> 
> like those amoretti on the ceiling at the Carnesalve?
> 
> ---
> more about Ruperta's change of heart:
> right before, she gets Dally involved posing as the Angel of Death
> ("ever such a treat in store")
> upon reflection, maybe not the friendliest gesture, or very flattering at
> all...
> Dally obtusely takes it @ face value though or transcends Ruperta's malice
> 
> Right after her ascension, Ruperta with a "Samantha-from-Bewitched" tiny
> gesture
> (a twitch of her cigarette) indicates or pollicates or "kapnocates"
> a match made for Dally and Crouchmas which though exposing D
> to danger, still enriches her and leads to her reunion with Kit...
> 
> also, Looking at the rather amorphous sex scene betw D & C...
> "right out on Northumberland Avenue...herself in expensive deshabille
> and a warm fog of self-pleasure..."
> so, she and C are right out _on the everlovin' street_ ?! and
> she's pleasuring herself for him to watch...
> (like in Summer of '42 where the boys think all a woman has
> to do is cross her legs...maybe this could be done at a table in Claridge's
> or someplace...)
> 
> Finally - I have Ruperta on the brain today (and Dally has
> been sitting across from me at my table @ Claridge's with
> her legs crossed...) - Ruperta as a little girl: "had offered him [Crouchmas]
> a pound for one of his lead soldiers, and upon his handing it over
> she had picked up a nearby cricket bat and begun, rather solemnly,
> to pound him with it"
> with the bat?  pound Crouchmas or the soldier? mean little
> girl anyway (also, that upper-class British solidarity where
> they all have stayed @ each other's country houses etc)