IVIV, surrounded by a white light....

[Mark Kohut]

Wunderfull connection....

I read Farewell too because of Robin and I've already not noticed that....

Thanks,

Mark

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: RE: IVIV, surrounded by a white light....
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 10:09 AM
> I've jumped on the Chandler-reading
> bandwagon, and in Farewell, My Lovely, he refers to the
> police interrogation lights as "the white light."  So
> DOc could be getting into police mode here (if in a milder
> form than Bigfoot's).
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: David Brodeur <duwamps at gmail.com>
> 
> >> 
> >> Throw off an idea about why P writes that Doc went
> into Chick 
> >> Palace "surrounded by a white light"....is this a
> 
> >> self-referential allusion ala above, or is the
> white light 
> >> pot smoke? a joke about going in with a kind of
> halo, a 
> >> numinous glow? 
> >
> >I know new-agers who visualize themselves as surrounded
> by white light as a
> >sort of protection ritual. Given Doc's trepidation at
> entering and the deep
> >breath that precedes this, I took it as something
> similar here. I don't
> >remember this being done in 1970, but I spent most of
> my hippy days in the
> >hinterlands.
> >
> >"Another way to protect yourself, whether you're
> religious or not, is to
> >imagine the Creators pure white light coming
> >from above. Imagine this light empowering you, covering
> you, protecting you.
> >Now imagine this white light has
> >turned into a bubble around you, feel its warmth, its
> protection, feel its
> >Love. Nothing negative will penetrate
> >this bubble." - http://www.evergreenparanormal.com/Prayers.html
> >
> >David Brodeur
> >
> 
>