C of L49 few--mostly two-- straggling thoughts on Chap 5

[kelber at mindspring.com]

He uses the word furrow in GR as a synonym for vagina.  Pokler fantasizing incest:  "paternal plow found its way into filial furrow."  And it crops up (ha ha)during the orgy sequence.  Don't know if this means that TRP's thoughts on the word have evolved between the two books.  In COL49, as David points out, there's a mythical connotation, a connection to something older and experienced -- maybe a matriarchal or Gaia principle.  In GR, it's about older guys with hot young chicks.  In Pokler's case, it's father-daughter incest -- no mother in sight.  It might involve some sort of longing to get back to the land or to the earth or something, but the furrows here are young and shallow.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>

> 
>> And "furrowed"......it is used three times in this chapter......remember TRPs seeming allusion
>> to anthroplogical myths of a fertile land, fisher king, etc.......
>>
>> The old man has lived a "furrowed' life, says TRP....and a bit later says that Oedipa has not
>> yet gotten any furrows........
>>
>> A life where we plant deep......not possible until we--she--leave(s) the tower?
> 
>Wait ... I thought, perhaps wrongly, that furrows were bad here, that stuck in furrow is no better than stuck in a tower?
>
>I saw the old man as cammed out of the furrows, the furrows where other people spent their lives digging. As if it were this nudge upward that provided the old man with a new perspective, a vision (now Oed's vision), gained by looking down upon the furrowing ordered masses. Much like Oed's look down upon the city laid out like a circuit.
> 
>Instead of digging furrows, I saw the old man as celestial, surrounded by dancing light, a floating graceful dance instead of rutting about the furrows. Although I guess that picture that doesn't mesh too well with the old man's rotten mattress, which is about as corporeal as you can get, the fecund land of a gimpy rutting fisher king. So maybe "cammed out the furrows" is his death or a deathbed vision, an ascension?
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