Lemuria in GR (also: maritime law, SpongeBob)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"Paranoia for you here, Tchitcherine. Maybe Moscow's been tipped to your
vendetta. If there are gathering evidence for a court-martial, it won't be
Central Asia this time. I'll be Last Secretary to the embassy in Atlantis.
You can negotiate narcotics arrests for all the drowned Russian sailors,
expedit your own father's visas to far Lemuria, to the sun-resorts of
Sargasso, where the bones come up to lie and bleach and mock the passing
ships."

Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (p. 564).

Now, 'a court-martial', 'the embassy in Atlantis', 'your own father's visas
to far Lemuria', a-and bones coming up to 'mock the passing ships'. Sounds to
me as if "maritime law" bzw. the Law of the Sea is not by accident a side-theme
in Pynchon's last one. Is there a licensed law-person in the house?

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For Lemuria as an idea of spiritual healing see:
http://www.lemuria-rainbow.info/lemuria.html

For nowadays kids (and some of their parents) Bikini Bottom IS Neo-Lemuria.

For SpongeBob in Russian see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjMDlOBjVw

Does anything of this make sense? Or is at least entertaining?


KFL

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>
> Why does Pynchon [in IV] put maritime law in the foreground, though the story 
> would largely work without it?
>
> Must be something serious. Or just some 'selective perception' of mine ...
>
> And then I though that the Diffentialdiagnose of 'tellucic law' vs. 'maritime law' is something
> both, Schmitt and Pynchon seem to have an interest in; regarding the understanding of the complete crash
> of European (public!) international law by, first of all, German, then, later on, UK/US Air-Terror
> (vgl. "Raumwandel des Luftkrieges" [NdE, pp. 293-8] ... "A Screaming comes across the sky ..."),
> I'm 100% sure about this kute korrespondence.
>
> "Soon a pair of greenish blobs appeared on the radar, moving closer with each sweep, and Sauncho got on
> the radio. Some of the transitions sounded like a Gordita Beach Bar any night of the week.
> 'Your buddies from the Justice Department,' Doc guessed.
> "Plus the coast guard. Saucho looked at the schooner for a while through the binoculars. 'She's seen us now.
> Pretty soon ... yup. Some smoke. She's switching over to diesel power. Well, that lets us out.'"
> (Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice, p. 356)
>
> There are 'special' (overseas) ships in V, GR, M&D, AtD, and, now, --- in Inherent Vice.
>
> (Right, there's also Col49's "Godzilla II", chapter three, but "a 17 foot aluminium trimian" does
> not leave its Heimatgewässer, so it's likely not relevant in our context).
>
> Enough for today, next week: How much is the title "Against the Day" influenced by Schmitt's concept
> of the Christian Kat-echon (vgl. NdE, pp. 28-32)?
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>
> a) Wouldn't some songs of Patrick the Starfish (like the one Michael Leong
> analyzes in his essay) fit quite well into Pynchon's anarchic novels?
>
> b) Why has SpongeBob --- just like Frenesi! --- so VERY blue eyes?
>
> c) If we consider Bikini Bottom as some kinda 'Neo-Lemuria', could one then say
> that Lemuria is the boundary object between Inherent Vice and, well, SpongeBob?
>
> KFL
>
> http://bigother.com/2009/10/19/american-poetry-the-contemporary-cartoon-from-robert-pinsky-to-patrick-the-starfish/
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