V--2nd, the wind:

[David Morris]

The root of word "spirit" means breath, like the wind, something
invisible, yet can be felt, heard, can move thing...

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the
> fool will be servant to the wise.
> That wind, at least in Pynchon novels, is Grace. The Lord Giveth and
> the Lord Taketh.  It blows St. Paul to Malta and Paola to America. But
> it is also the wind of the rocket. So, a complex symbol of Grace. Like
> Paul, Mason hasn't much resistance to the wind. Dixon has more. Poor
> Lazarus has none and must rely on the Charity of Dives. And, you, you
> have a drafty house too.
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>  "He looked up and saw Kurt Mondaugen. The wind all night,
> perhaps all year, had brought them together. This is what he
> came to believe, that it was the wind." GR.161
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> "Mason has begun in recent days hearing in the Wind entire
> orchestral Performances, of musick distinctly not
> British,--Viennese, perhaps, Hungarian, even Moorish. He
> finds he cannot concentrate. The Wind seems to be blowing
> cross-wise to the light incoming from Sirius, producing
> false images, as if, in Bradley's Metaphor for the
> Aberration, the Vehicle, Wind, has broken thro' some
> Barrier, and entered the nonsense regime of the Tenor,
> Light, whilst remaining attached to it. As supernatural as a
> Visitant from the Regime of Death to the sunny Colony of
> Life,--to be metaphorical about it…"  M&D.173
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> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A follow-up on an observation of Laura's (which I cannot locate) worth much
>> comment:
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>> She noticed the wind around Benny in Chapter 12. Noted Paola's very wind-related
>> name....
>> Wind is elsewhere and everywhere in P's other works too. Particularly M & D and
>> Against the Day, yes?..............................
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>> Like water, a good thing, a good element...the 'breath of God' even when
>> speaking irreligiously?
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