To P or not to P is no longer the Vection

[Emma Wrigley]

Fantastic. I'm going to be pondering this for the rest of the day (and
then on).

Brings to mind static (thinking the thing, then I remembered the film).
Maybe the vitality of the constant flicker moves on into the mesmerising
influence of static or indeed its torpor? 

Emma
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: alice wellintown [alicewellintown at gmail.com]
>Sent: 20/5/2010 1:55:07 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: To P or not to P is no longer the Vection
>
>A wonderful essay by Guy Reynolds on Fitzgerald's Gatsby discusses the
>"Constant Flicker" on the American Scene and how that 'flicker" became
>part of Modern consciousness. It's the flickering lights produced when
>natural or artificial light passes through the steel girders that form
>the frames (as in 24fps) in the 59th Street Bridge when Gatsby & Co.
>pass over it from the Valley of Ashes to Manhattan, and it's the same
>frame, the one that we here Catch, Catch, Catch, in the
>theatre/theater, not quite at 24 but at 22, in the Projector, when
>photography, in the flipping or skimming through a magazine or channel
>surfing or zapping catches humanity in Poe's Maelstrom as described
>by McLuhan in the Mechanical Bride, and when a new tyranny, slouching
>toward Bethlehem, is framed, by Steiglitz, Strand, Sheeler.
>Sssssttttshshhsheeeeeeeeeeetttt that metallic Vection of the Chrysler
>Building shot in shards through those Hopper-esque atmospheres where
>Nighthawks lean over counters and men, reduced to shadows beyond the
>frames of Morgan Guaranty waste away at the Tombs.
>
>We read V. at least two, maybe three times.
>
>24fp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p
>
>59th st. bridge frames:
>http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1TMPf7H9JHA/SFp3JlGTrzI/AAAAAAAABOU/2iKFA_DEs
8s/s400/
>Neighborhood.jpg
>
>Valley of Ashes: http://www.city-journal.org/article02.php?aid=1524
>
>Catch 22 and Gravity too:
>http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/mccarron24.htm
>
>Poe & Mcluahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_aIdD6oAew
>
>Morgan frame: http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/strand.wallstreet.jpg
>
>Hopper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nighthawks.jpg
>
>Reynolds http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
>article=1055&context=englishfacpubs
>.
> 
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