IVIV (11) 166b

[Mark Kohut]

I just read a good piece on our global climate crisis by Bill McKibben (in Ma Jones, I think) in which he focusses on coral-----and how it may go......

and I remember the coral and coral combs in M & D..............

--- On Fri, 10/23/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (11) 166b
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 12:31 PM
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Clément
> Lévy wrote:
> 
> > Something I forgot about p. 166:
> > - karmic waterscape: it has something to do with
> Sortilège's fear and Doc's trips on Vehi's LSD, see p.
> 101-102, p. 105-107 and p. 108-110. The basic idea is: like
> Lemurian a long time ago, we will be punished for our bad
> karma: we destroyed the planet, and so: California (or the
> whole inhabited earth?) will vanish under the sea.
> > 
> > This is what Leej, "obsessed by Lemuria and its tragic
> final days," explains on p. 167: "We can't find a way to
> return to Lemuria, so it's returning to us"
> 
> Climate change:
> 
>     INTRODUCTION AND SYNOPSIS
>     Each year many people in the United
> States of America
>     are affected by natural disasters such
> as floods, drought,
>     tornadoes and hurricanes.  Some
> people lose everything
>     they own in these disasters, including
> their homes.  Many
>     are unable or unwilling to rebuild their
> homes in the same
>     area, and are forced to move
> elsewhere.  And yet, it is
>     difficult for most people in the U.S. to
> imagine losing not
>     just their personal belongings, but to
> have their entire
>     country disappear.  This is exactly
> what many islanders
>     around the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere
> in the world,
>     however, are facing.  While
> scientists study Earth’s
>     climate and look for definitive evidence
> of global
>     warming, people on many of the Pacific
> islands are
>     coming face-to-face with what they
> believe are clear
>     indications that weather and ocean
> patterns across the
>     Pacific basin are changing. . .
>     http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/guides/rwguide.pdf
>