IVIV (0) "Under the paving stones, the beach!"

[Mark Kohut]

Doug writes:
On the off chance that nobody has mentioned it yet, I observe that the beach beneath the paving stones will probably be sand.
 
 "Commonly found in sand, silicon is the basic material for
 semiconductors." --common knowledge, see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/12/981222080907.htm

YES!......as we might all remember, or will when we reread it [smile], one of Pynchon's internal metaphoric "judgments"--ye olde authorial intent---
is the screaming, yes, SCREAMING under the sands, uncaused except by the sumarine being there, as it makes its way under the sand in Against the Day. 

Screaming.(!) Nuff said?

Not in any literal real-life belief to act on, but in his fictional vision of life, the good life, TRP would rather sand be on beaches than ever have been turned into silicon. Perhaps in the way that Orwell, per 1984, would rather TV has never been invented. I throw out for discussion. 

- On Sun, 8/30/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV (0) "Under the paving stones, the beach!"
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 12:03 PM
> "Under the paving stones, the
> beach!"
> --GRAFFITO, PARIS, MAY 1968
> 
> On the off chance that nobody has mentioned it yet, I
> observe that the beach beneath the paving stones will
> probably be sand.
> 
> "Commonly found in sand, silicon is the basic material for
> semiconductors."
> --common knowledge, see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/12/981222080907.htm
> for a Googled example
> 
> …thus fundamental to digital technology and a
> computerized future.
>