Against the Day, question of y'all

[Mark Kohut]

> Page 20, hc, end of unmarked chapter
> two...Penny Black, newly a Captain, 
> speaks of when the Bindlestiffs were up in the air with the
> Garcons of '71
> and "there was a kind of force,,,energy we could feel,
> directed personally at us..." ..."Nobody saw any
> projectiles", it begins..............
> 
> Thoughts as to meanings? 

Can this be read as the resentment/hatred of the established order at the Garcons' 'freedom', flight of the force of more freedom in the world?  Or, that Germanic hatred for its enemies that permeated the air thru GR's tim;, that permeates TRPs fiction. Not a screaming here yet but a force field of eveil feeling?

Here is something re the Siege of Paris: 
Dispatched from Paris as the republican government's emissary, Léon Gambetta passed over the German lines in a hot air balloon and organized the recruitment of new French armies.

News about an alleged German "extermination" plan infuriated the French and strengthened their support to their new government. Within a few weeks, five new armies totaling more than 500,000 troops were recruited.




--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Against the Day, question of y'all
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 9:43 AM
> Page 20, hc, end of unmarked chapter
> two...Penny Black, newly a Captain, 
> speaks of when the Bindlestiffs were up in the air with the
> Garcons of '71
> and "there was a kind of force,,,energy we could feel,
> directed personally at us..." ..."Nobody saw any
> projectiles", it begins..............
> 
> Thoughts as to meanings? 
> 
> 
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