"giant bloodshot eyeball", p14

[alice wellintown]

Well now home entertainment was my baby's wish
So I hopped into town for a satellite dish
I tied it to the top of my Japanese car
I came home and I pointed it out into the stars
A message came back from the great beyond
There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on

Red Eyes are the Devil's eyes in a lot of those movies and cartoons.

And Tiriq has yellow and pointed eyes. (16) Sometimes a junkies eyes
or some liver jaundice, sometimes the son of the devil.


Of course Work, at the TV-24-7-News-Cycle & Pentium Infinity Processor
Speed gets into your dreams like those Cartoons the old man warns of
in CL49 and the Road-Runner Re-Run is Run into Run Lola Run--Lola
rennt (1998) and Run Alice Run  & Dorothy Run...the Quest is
multiplying and the clues are talking backward and you're late.

And it's getting late and you're late,  you're late,  and you're not
gettin any younger ...Run Rabbit, Rabbit Rich, Rabbit Run,  Dig that
hole forget the Sun...dig it, dig it, dig it, dig a pony...ride a
painted pony ...that Jones you're keepin up with he just ran away with
that Alice. But pay no attention to that Witch behind the curtain or
the Sparks fly from Sparky's fingertips. It ain't the hacker god. In
this  Manichean world it's the gnostic lower or sub-god who looks like
Jesus but kills like Manson. The radio signal' is out but the dude
sings in perfect time and meets its voice on the other side. Two
machines perfectly timed to the The Big Clock (1948); Capitalism and
Canonical Time. No rest for the Serf. No eat, no drink, no be merry.
Gotta ride that BIGGER wave; it's way out .. we gonna go way out, way
out, way out,  cause that's where the Mun is.

Red eyes belong to the Worker in a world where Red is black-listed out
like the names of the murdered on that Government document. What
happened to the eight hour work day, dude?

Flying the Red Eye!

Of course, having blood in one's eyes for a baby, is like the hardon
blues, as Dylan sez,


Woke up this morning, feeling blue
Seen a good looking girl, can I make love with you
Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you
Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you
I got blood in my eyes for you, baby
I don't care what in the world you do.


Or it could mean the red shoes, the heart, the brain, the courage, Oz,
the wizard, home, the witches broom ...and that grail too.

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism on Nature

>From Eric Wilson's Emerson's Sublime Science

"Harold Bloom ambiguously hails the famous 'transparent eyeball'
passage as the 'most notorious' in Emerson's work. Certainly this
passage has drawn more attention than any other in Emerson's oeuvre,
earning more frequent and disparate interpretations than any other.
Whatever the passage might be, it clearly epitomizes Emerson's
compressed, polysemantic style. It crowds together numerous tropes and
allusions to the Bible, fully embodying the traits John Burroughs
finds in Emerson's best writing: 'It is abrupt, freaky, unexpected...
darts this way and that, and connects the far and the near in every
line.... [I]t is a leaping thread of light.'




On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Pynchon loves this image as we know from AtD.
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> 1) 'giant eyeball of society' is a phrase from Emerson's "Nature", right Alice?, solo over to you............
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> 2) an eyeball, not bloodshot, is part of the logo of the Pinkerton Detective agency, where Hammett worked and, of course, nationally famous.
> "We never sleep" is the motto under the eyeball.
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> 3) Look at a dollar bill. Google some of the 'myths', including the illuminati, I believe.
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> 4) Love that this one is bloodshot, as the eyeballs of our best noir detectives might be!...another f'in' hilarious homage.
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