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

[Mark Kohut]

I like this except I would change, "humans aren't the most important" to 
"the human is the most important"...all that animism is why we are human, imho. 

--- On Fri, 8/28/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) "Uphill and invisible… p4
> To: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Doug Millison" <dougmillison at comcast.net>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 12:34 PM
> 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.
> >
>