IVIV Sportello

[János Székely]

Re: door and "mystery about GR"
note two "portes" in the closest-to-the-beach (and also among the most
gumshoe-like) chapters of GR: the porte-cochere where Slothrop's tail
is hiding (this is the only point where one of the tails is shown in
person), and La Porte Fausse, or the False Gate in Nice where Slothrop
enters the world of the preterite.

János

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