ATDTDA (33) - p. 924-6 peyote

[Joe Allonby]

Mostly what I got from peyote was eyelid movies. Some pretty damned vivid
ones.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:13 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

>
> El Espinero:  "But the hikuli is not for everyone."
>
> For those, like me, who've never indulged (hell, no one's ever offered it
> to me), here's a sample description of the experience:
>
> http://www.miqel.com/entheogens/first_western_peyote_trip.html
>
> For those who have indulged, a question:  in the first very long sentence
> ("Before too long ... view the sky."), is Pynchon perhaps describing a
> peyote vision he himself had, or are we meant to parse the literal meaning
> of Frank's vision?  The second sentence takes Frank on a journey to/from
> Aztlan.  There's somewhat a rehashing of what Wren told him about the flight
> from Aztlan back on p. 277-78: fleeing from invaders who forced them to make
> offerings in the form of human sacrifices.
>
> In Frank's vision, they're trespassers, aka in ATD as The Trespassers,
> possibly gringos who literally visited Aztlan from the future (our
> present?), or a vision of the future (from the Aztlan past) when the U.S.
> would seize the Southwest (Aztlan) from Mexico.
>
> Some images:
>
> a tlachiquero, or maguey cutter:
>
>
> http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/mexico/images/91.html
>
> Frida Kahlo with her parrots:
>
>
> http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=3156&title=Current+Exhibitions
>
> skeletons of raw sugar:
>
> http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/sugarskullsmaking.htm
>
> heliograph:  this is actually a device with mirrors used for long-distance
> Morse code communications.  Pynchon means heliogravure, a photoengraving
> technique.
>
> http://www.cfmgallery.com/artists/Dali/pages/Heliogravurehtm.htm
>
> Laura
>
>
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