CoL49 (6) What She was Pregnant with

[Robin Landseadel]

My favorite breaking down of the fourth wall, courtesy of Gravity's  
Rainbow, page V411, P417:


	Pokler may be only witnessing tonight-or he may really be part
	of it. He hasn't been shown which it is. Look at this. There is
	about to be expedited, for Friedrich August Kekule von
	Stradonitz, his dream of 1865, the great Dream that
	revolutionized chemistry and made the IG possible. So that the
	right material may find its way to the right dreamer, everyone,
	everything involved must be exactly in place in the pattern. It
	was nice of Jung to give us the idea of an ancestral pool in
	which everybody shares the same dream material. But how is it
	we are each visited as individuals, each by exactly and only
	what he needs? Doesn't that imply a switching-path of some
	kind? a bureaucracy? Why shouldn't the IG go to seances?
	They ought to be quite at home with the bureaucracies of the
	other side. Kekule's dream here's being routed now past points
	which may arc through the silence, in bright reluctance to live
	inside the moving moment, an imperfect, a human light, over
	here interfering with the solemn binary decisions of these
	agents, who are now allowing the cosmic Serpent, in the violet
	splendor of its scales, shining that is definitely not human, to
	pass-without feeling, without wonder (after you get a little time
	in-whatever that means over here- one of these archetypes gets
	 to look pretty much like any other, oh you hear some of these
	new hires, the seersucker crowd come in the first day, "Wow!
	Hey-that's th-th' Tree O' Creation! Huh? Ain't it! Je-eepers!" but
	they calm down fast enough, pick up the reflexes for Intent to
	Gawk, you know self-criticism's an amazing technique, it
	shouldn't work but it does ....