IVIV (1) Shasta

[Mark Kohut]

Flatland gear = straightworld clothing.....see gloss....she's, at most now, a line........not a positive in P's world here and elsewhere........

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: IVIV (1) Shasta
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 3:43 PM
>    "'That you,
> Shasta?'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 1)
> 
> http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf
> 
> 
> "Tonight she was all in flatland gear"
> 
> As in straight?  Square?  Cf. ...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
> http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/FL.HTM
> http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/
> http://books.google.com/books?id=R6E0AAAAMAAJ
> 
> 
> Shasta
> 
> Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its
> popularity
> in the 1980s. Wikipedia. Note that Pynchon has named
> characters after
> soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in Mason & Dixon.
> 
> However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to
> Mt. Shasta,
> long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after
> Lemuria
> sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of
> Bigfoot here,
> as well as wolfmen. See Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian
> Connection.
> Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would
> likely have
> been familiar with this mythology.
> 
> "Shasta McNasty" was also the name of a fictional band, the
> subject of
> a short-lived UPN sitcom. The members of the band were
> three slackers
> who lived in Venice Beach
> 
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1
> 
> Mount Shasta can be considered as one of the most sacred
> places on
> this planet. The mountain is a mystic power source for this
> planet;
> actually, this sacred mountain is an incarnation of the
> Great Central
> Sun of this universe. It is a focus for angels,
> spirit-guides,
> spaceships, masters from the Light Realm, and the home of
> the
> survivors of Ancient Lemuria, which sank under the waves of
> the
> Pacific Ocean a little over 12,000 years ago ...
> 
> http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm
> 
> Frederick Spencer Oliver's 1894 fantasy novel, A Dweller on
> Two
> Planets, is about the Lemurian race. In the novel,
> Lemurians who
> traveled to Mount Shasta when their continent sank beneath
> the Pacific
> Ocean, are now said to live inside the mountain in a series
> of
> tunnels. Several other authors have since expanded on these
> ideas.
> People still claim to have encountered Lemurians on
> Shasta.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta#Cultural_references
> 
> In a detailed personal history of Atlantis and 19th century
> North
> America, Phylos draws the threads of both lifetimes
> together in
> familiar and initiatic terms revealing equally their
> triumphs and
> failures and exposing the cause and effects of karma from
> one lifetime
> to another. His life story is written in personal testimony
> of the
> law: "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" and
> as a
> warning to this technological age to not repeat the
> mistakes of the
> past which lead to the cataclysmic destruction of "Poseid,
> queen of
> the waves".
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dweller_on_Two_Planets
> 
> Frederick S. Oliver, A Dweller on Two Planets (1905)
> 
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm
> 
> 
> Shasta
> 
> http://www.shastapop.com/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink)
> 
> With apologies to R. Fiero ...
>