IVIV Sportello

[John Bailey]

Nice work folks!

SPOILERS:



Notes:

1. Doc's LSD experience literalises his name
2. Think of the reason Bigfoot got *his* name
3. I'd totally forgotten how prominent doors and portals and liminal
passing-over points are in AtD
4. A door isn't just an entryway, it's a barrier. An artificially
imposed line. M&D suggests that the drawing of boundary lines is a
kind of modern Original Sin. Lines have power. Single 'em up, and...
5. That bit in a recently mentioned Pynchon letter re: the Herero
genocide and the imposition of an imperial culture being tied to
differentiation and categorisation...
6. "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman really is an awesome
song. Thanks to IV for the introduction.
7. IV's been by my desk for a good month now and I've slowly
discovered that dipping into it at random is a different experience to
reading it 1-369. It's much more fragmentary than a straight read
suggests, and the mindset I get into reading it as an attempt at a
'properly plotted' novel means that I completely miss some of the
richness of individual sections. I can highly recommend flicking
through and having a cruisy read of whatever you hit upon. Don't read
it in terms of the overall shape of the novel.



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Michel Ryckx<mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Doc Sportello = Colored Plots
>
> John Bailey:
>>
>> Sportello anagram: Tropes? LOL!
>>
>> [Punctuation = author's own]
>>
>> 2009/8/21 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> Kute Korrespondences:
>>>
>>> Sportello = window/door.
>>> Maas = loophole.
>>> Sportello anagram: L. E. Slotrop.
>
>