V- 2nd: Ogling Rachel

[Phillip Grayson]

Owlglass really took me straight to the eyes on the billboard in _Great
Gatsby_ more than anything else.  For what that's worth...

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>wrote:

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>
> Right, I'd rather say that the Owlglass/Eulenspiegel bit might be there to
> relativize the Rachel/purity bit. FWIW.
>
> Might also be another self-referential gesture to connect the novel, at
> least its Profane parts, to a certain anti-transcendental, crudely humorous
> tradition.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > Don't really see Rachel in the role of prankster or trickster.  Our
> introduction to her is very off-putting, but to the extent that the
> character's developed later on, she's intelligent, kind and level-headed.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > >Sent: Jun 17, 2010 11:07 AM
> > >To: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> > >Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > >Subject: Re: V- 2nd: Ogling Rachel
> > >
> > >From wikipedia article:
> > >Ultimately, Eulenspiegel's pranks are not primarily about the exposure
> of human weaknesses and malice but the implicit breaking up and sublation of
> a given status of consciousness by means of negation itself (animus) as that
> which Eulenspiegel embodies. The common element of the Eulenspiegel stories
> consists by and large in turning the mental horizon prevailing in them
> upside down and unseating it by a higher one. .............The German term
> "Landfahrer" (≈ "vagrant") defines Eulenspiegel's social position best and
> most comprehensively. In his highly pronounced mobility are expressed the
> animus-inspired Late Middle Ages. Thus Till Eulenspiegel implicitly
> personifies the constitution of consciousness of this time. With
> Eulenspiegel's death occurs the entry of the embodied trickster-animus into
> the medium of things spiritual,...
> > >
> > >apply to Rachel?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message ----
> > >From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> > >To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > >Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > >Sent: Thu, June 17, 2010 10:32:06 AM
> > >Subject: Re: V- 2nd: Ogling Rachel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Dunno if it has been mentioned yet, but Owlglass is also a translation
> > >of the last name of that proto-picaro, Till Eulenspiegel:
> > >
> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Eulenspiegel
> > >
> > >
> > >Heikki (catching up little by little)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Mark Kohut wrote:
> > >
> > >> Anyone but me see Owlglass as a near-pun on Hourglass (as in a
> desirable female figure)...
> > >>
> > >> A...and a woman who looks into a mirror Owl-like?  Who? Who?  Seeing
> only the things she desires,
> > >> no real ...self?
> > >>
> > >> Her love for inanimate things, like her car, is a nice capturing of
> America's car culture and consumer
> > >> goods society?
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