Grasping for V. Group Read P.S.

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Myself of course I have to think of Heidegger first when I hear "waiting
presence", but this is a German thing you certainly wouldn't understand ...

Regarding "emptiness" à la Pynchon: It's right in the first song, on the
first page of my Picador UK edition (p. 9):

"EVERY [emphasis added] night is Christmas Eve on old East Main"

Although the 1960s were a decade of rediscovering religion (cf. Peter L.
Berger: A Rumor of Angels. Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the
Supernatural [1969]; dt. Auf den Spuren der Engel. Ffm 1970: Fischer),
I read Pynchon's words as a catholic's criticism on secularization.

If every night is Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve is profane (and thus
all the other days of the year, too).

Anyone in agreement?

Kai

>
> And, let's discuss: WTF does "emptiness into waiting presence" mean?....I've just realized
> that in the analogy list, the first term is the good term equalling Benny before he turns onto East Main---dog
> into wolf---so emptiness is the good term and waiting presence the bad??? Waiting presence of drunken
> vomiting sailors, okay, but why 'emptiness" ?
>