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[kelber at mindspring.com]

He uses plow and furrow in a sexual context in the section where Pokler is fantasizing about having sex with the girl who may or may not be his daughter.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Nov 11, 2008 3:29 PM
>To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Help, please
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>Doesn't TRP use furrow with some full "olde" meanings in GR?
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>--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Help, please
>> To: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
>> Cc: "P-List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 2:04 PM
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Glenn Scheper
>> <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> > Another way of looking at delirium might begin with
>> the word's etymology - from
>> > the Latin, de lira, meaning "out of the
>> furrow." The word delirium can then
>> > refer, as the novelist and art critic William S.
>> Wilson has pointed out, to a
>> > faulty plowing in which the plow pulls out of the
>> furrow. Equally, in a literary
>> > context, where rational thought proceeds in a line
>> furrowed with opposites, to
>> > be delirious can mean to go outside oppositional
>> thinking. A plow pulls out of
>> > the furrow, where rooted plants are meant to grow in
>> straight lines. That's one
>> > way of transitioning from striated to smooth space, in
>> Deleuze's vocabulary.
>> > Outside ond over the furrow, untended vegetation is
>> likely to be rhizomatic. And
>> > so is narrative when it resists the linearity of
>> sentences on a page and tries
>> > to get outside the furrowed oppositions and rootedness
>> of rational thought.
>> >  --
>> http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/machinic
>> >  The Medial Turn - Joseph Tabbi
>> 
>> Damn, I wish I'd've, uh, cammed out that furrow. 
>> Thanks, Glenn.  A good one ...
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