IVIV: Lemuria, maritime law, karmic adjustment

[Mark Kohut]

Kai,

First, neither of the two lawyer-friends I asked about maritime law had any real knowledge or notions of.

Second, in some oblique way, this passage you quote reminds me of some scenes in the old european village re Cyprian and what's his name in AtD.
Esp. the stuff about ancient resentments---"tentacles of sin and desire"---
and the world-bound way they were "resolved" in AtD......

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> Subject: IVIV: Lemuria, maritime law, karmic adjustment
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:44 AM
> 
> Found half a sentence that makes my association more
> plausible:
>  
> "Tentacles of sin and desire and that strange world-bound
> karma which is
> of the essence in maritime law crept through ALL [my
> emphasis.kfl] areas
> of Pacific sailing culture ..." (IV, p. 91)
>  
> The context here is the "insurance history" (ebd.) of the
> GOLDEN FANG.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Kai 
> 
> >
> > "'Actually I'm a marine lawyer.'
> > Doc thought about this. 'You're ... a Marine who
> practices law? No,
> > wait, --- you're a lawyer who only represents
> Marines.... (...)
> > Maybe you better give me your card,' Doc said. 'Can't
> ever tell.
> > Boat hassles, oil spills, SOMETHING [emphasis
> added.kfl].'" (IV, p. 27)
> >
> > Could that "something" be the "karmic adjustment" we
> know about from VL?
> > And is this somehow connected to Lemuria?
> >    
>         
>           
>   

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