O, O, O, To-tus flore-o!

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Robin quoted:
 
> The great cusp-green equinox and turning, dreaming fishes to
> young ram, watersleep to firewaking, bears down on us. Across
> the Western Front, up in the Harz in Bleicherode, Wernher von
> Braun, lately wrecked arm in a plaster cast, prepares to
> celebrate his 23rd birthday. Artillery thunders through the
> afternoon. Russian tanks raise dust phantoms far away over the
> German leas. The storks are home, and the first violets have
> appeared.
>
> At "The White Visitation," days along the chalk piece of
> seacoast now are fine and clear. The office girls are bundling
> into fewer sweaters, and breasts peaking through into visibility
> again. March has come in like a lamb. Lloyd George is dying.
> Stray visitors are observed now along the still-forbidden beach,
> sitting among obsolescent networks of steel rod and cable,
> trousers rolled to the knee or hair unsnooded, chilly gray toes
> stirring the shingle. Just offshore, underwater, run miles of
> secret piping, oil ready at a valve-twist to be released and roast
> German invaders who belong back in dreams already old ...
> fuel waiting hypergolic ignition that will not come unless now as
> some junior-bureaucratic rag or May uprising of the spirit, to
> Bavarian tunesmith Carl Orff's lively
>
> 0,0,0, To-tus flore-o!
 
Aah, such beauty! Thanks for this quote, which one again reminded me why
I love GR best of all. None of Pynchon's other novels come even close
to the scrubbed freshness and rawness of this prose. I can't pin down
exactly what makes this language so different from Pynchon's other novels
(the poignant fusing of technology and nature? the syntax? the individual
words? the evocative details? the setting?), but it does, somehow, possess 
an eery, haunted quality that is absent from the rest of his work 
 
/Tore
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