Re: IVIV (1) "Uphill and invisible… p4

[rich]

another one of Pynchon's great insight into the animate/inanimate dispensation

Pynchon's work imbues a consciousness to everything under the sun--not
just humans but animals, storms, molecules, and yes, steel and
automobiles
humans aren't the most important thing in Pynchon's world and
therefore a possible insight into why some think his characterizations
of people rather thin--his universe is just too wide (and expansive)
stones and wind, and lightning, and rats, and inanimate ducks are all equal
IV is very human-centric if u will and instances of that expansive
weltanschauung like this passage are those little nuggets I find most
appealing

rich

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:45 AM, John Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Uphill and invisible, traffic out on the boulevard to and from the freeway
>> uttered tuneful exhaust phrases which went echoing out to sea, where the
>> crews of oil tankers sliding along hearing them, could have figured it for
>> wildlife taking care of nighttime business on an exotic coast." p4
>
> Yes, beautiful.
>
> You could almost see those cars as hungry babies, crying out to the
> mother ship, bringing vital supplies of oil.
>