IVIV (1) LSD Investigations

[Mark Kohut]

Love the glass eye find, new to me....James, the Other james, on when the soul--the human--flees a word....wunderbar.

Although I think it is just a kute korrespondence ti the scheme of understanding, there is a character with a glass eye in The Big Sleep.

the dystopian future world in WE is all glass........talk about everything
you do being seen?.....talk about an all-seeing eye.................

Soon in Chap 2, I think we get a virtually sure allusion to WE's glass...

--- On Sat, 8/29/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) LSD Investigations
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 11:51 AM
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dave
> Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > "a giant bloodshot eyeball"
> 
> Cf. ...
> 
> Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (1836) ...
> 
> "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe
> air, and
> uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I
> become a
> transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all; the currents
> of the
> Universal Being circulate through me-I am part or particle
> of God."
> 
> http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
> http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-contents.html
> 
> And see as well, e.g., ...
> 
> http://www.pantheism.net/paul/emerson.htm
> 
> Emerson's Transparent Eyeball
> 
> http://escholar.salve.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=fac_staff_pub
> 
> Emerson's Transcendental Eye and Whitman's Democratic "I"
> 
> http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/9/0/2/pages209023/p209023-1.php
> 
> Emerson's “Transparent Eye-Ball” and James's “Glass
> Eye”: Practical
> Transcendence
> 
> http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=5668088
> 
> Hm ...
> 
> William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. II
> (1890)
> 
> "Let the reader try this with any word on this page. 
> He will soon
> begin to wonder if it can possibly be the word he has been
> using all
> his life with that meaning.  It stares at him from the
> paper like a
> glass eye, with no speculation in it.  Its body is
> indeed there, but
> the soul is fled."
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=a4QBAAAAYAAJ
> http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin19.htm
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/18765827/JAMES-William-the-Principles-of-Psychology-Vol-II
> 
> Hm.  Cf. ...
> 
> "As the distance between them gradually diminished
> Mondaugen saw that
> her left eye was artificial ...."  (V., Ch. 9, Sec.
> ii, p. 237)
> 
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54587
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54593
> 
>