V-2nd. Pissing at the sun/: Ahab

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Sorry, it's not chapter 26 yet 36 of Moby Dick ~

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> From: lorentzen at hotmail.de
> To: markekohut at yahoo.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: V-2nd. Pissing at the sun/: Ahab
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:05:46 +0200
>
>
> In my Picador UK [Hey you Englishmen, this will be fun on Sunday, right?]
> edition it's page 26:
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> " ... with some intention of pissing on the sun to put it out for good
> and all ..."
>
> This is obviously a Melville reference:
>
> " ... I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
>
> (Moby Dick, chapter 26: The Quarter-Deck, p. 167, London 1963: OUP)
>
> And Benny - "Profane, fat, sweated." (p. 25) - IS insulted, because
> "(s)un beat down out of a cloudless, UNPROTECTIVE [emphasis added] heaven"
> (ebd.) [Interesting, this is like German where we don't have the
> heaven/sky-distinction and it's all "Himmel"!kfl], plus he
> feels "uncomfortable" (ebd.). Of course also wg. Rachel ...
>
> No hermetic arts involved so far, imo.
>
>
> Kai
>
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>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:54:03 -0700
>> From: markekohut at yahoo.com
>> Subject: V-2nd. Pissing at the sun
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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>> p. 19 Seems to be astrology humor?...Don't know if it is almost as old a joke as astrology,
>> but I thought I had heard a similar drunken pissing story back in the day........but
>> I may always have been remembering this one???
>>
>> http://www.astrologyweekly.com/humour/pissing-on-sun.php
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>> I have always just seen it as a(nother) profane joke--this one directed toward the sun
>> god, the god left by default, maybe, if the Sacred God is blasphemed--- if one wanted to play them ole
>> kosmic blues again.
>>
>> What yu'all think?
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