IVIV (1) LSD Investigations

[John Bailey]

"There is that problem Larry has with mirrors too. Kinda go together in a way."

Not to mention walls. Guy's like a portable, um, door.

Speaking of mirrors - Doc's disguises are hilarious. Can a long-hair
really get away with short-back-and-sides wigs? Or is Doc's
self-perception a bit off and he actually looks like the goofball in
the obviously fake rug I imagine?

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Love the glass eye find, new to me....James, the Other james, on when the soul--the human--flees a word....wunderbar.
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> 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.
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> the dystopian future world in WE is all glass........talk about everything
> you do being seen?.....talk about an all-seeing eye.................
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> Soon in Chap 2, I think we get a virtually sure allusion to WE's glass...
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> --- On Sat, 8/29/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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"
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>> Cf. ...
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>> Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (1836) ...
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>> "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."
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>> http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
>> http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-contents.html
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>> And see as well, e.g., ...
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>> http://www.pantheism.net/paul/emerson.htm
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>> Emerson's Transparent Eyeball
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>> http://escholar.salve.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=fac_staff_pub
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>> Emerson's Transcendental Eye and Whitman's Democratic "I"
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>> http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/9/0/2/pages209023/p209023-1.php
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>> Emerson's “Transparent Eye-Ball” and James's “Glass
>> Eye”: Practical
>> Transcendence
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>> http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=5668088
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>> Hm ...
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>> William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. II
>> (1890)
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>> "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."
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>> 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. ...
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>> "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
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