V-2nd - Chapter 12: Keep Cool But Care

[kelber at mindspring.com]

In the next chapter, robotic SHROUD quotes it to Benny.  How does it hop from McClintic to SHROUD/Benny?  Via Paola?  Via Pynchon?  Or is it just in the ethos?


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

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>A...And--alice, alice, where art thou?----
>How RELIABLE is McClintic's motto?.......
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 10:50:10 AM
>Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 12: Keep Cool But Care
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>Detachment or just self-containment? within one-on-oneness............
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>It does say "Love" as in Love and do as you will" that one overridding 
>"commandment" someone sez...
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>How overarching is the 'help" mandate?.....help to do the work that was 24fps? 
>or just help thy neighbor kind of help?  
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>How is the "no publicizing it" akin to P's belief in privacy or his 
>Anti-Charisma bits????
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 10:15:35 AM
>Subject: V-2nd - Chapter 12: Keep Cool But Care
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>Lackluster as the lowly Chapter 12 is, it's still the source of the oft-quoted: 
>Keep cool but care.  McClintic formulates this little philosophy while he's with 
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>Paola.  There always seems to be wind imagery around Paola (including her last 
>name).  McClintic and Paola are driving up the Hudson and here's another wind 
>reference:  "their own wind was cool."
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>Then:  "She talked to him straight and McClintic kept cool."
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>She tells him her life story, which causes McClintic to ruminate:
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>"Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it:  
>keep cool, but care."
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>It's a prescription for emotional detachment, for a realization that no one can 
>do much of anything about the state of the world.  Not sure Assange subscribes 
>to this.  Or Dick Cheney.  But certainly, Pynchon does.
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>Laura
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