Cof L49 Chap 4: life, will, projection

[David Payne]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:02:47 -0700, markekohut at yahoo.com wrote:
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> p 81-82 "to bestow life on what had persisted": Pierce's will. Two meanings to 'will' there? Oedipa ends Chap 2, after lovemaking with Metzger, saying when he asks her to come back: I will.
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> She asks if she should "[project] pulsing, stelliferous [filled with stars] meaning", like Driblette does, to Pierce's estate. With the planetarium metaphor, cosmography is invoked. A very religious projection ...for a real estate estate, yes?....But, no. No Meaning there. "as post-Beats coming to see deeper into what, after all, was a sane and decent affirmation of what we all want to believe about American values."---Slow Learner intro.
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> The famous line: "Shall I project a World?" "The discovery or projection of a fixed point---is equivalent to the creation of the world" from
> Eliade, "Sacred and Profane" http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Profane-Nature-Religion/dp/015679201X/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1#reader.
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cf, M&D p. 90, "the Girls are taken on a short but dizzying journey, straight up, into the Aether, until there beside them in the grayish Starlight is the ancient gravid Earth, the Fescue become a widthless Wand of Light, striking upon it brilliantly white-hot Arcs" ... Mason, turning an observatory (tower) into a planetarium (via riffing on astronomy as a projection of a world upon the stars) in order to get into the young girl's pants? as above, so below?
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