V-2nd - Chapter 10: Partridge in a Pear tree

[Mark Kohut]

I have been visited by a spontaneous thought on my own post,
my self-closed ouroborous loop speaking to me like madmen hear...

Slab, whose art here is satirized of course, dismisses Esther superiorly for 
finding
"allegory' in his art. We know that multi-layered Resonance Writer TRP
works in allegorical plus modes. I.E. NOT one-to-one correspondence
allegory but layers of real world ramification beyond the words themselves---the 
art thing 
itself. 

So, Slab's comic Cheese Danishes Thing In Itself is a chaste art?---without 
relationships, w/o sex,
without a contamination from life and life only as Bobby D. is always saying?

Slab's art is NOT Pynchon's idea of art, his work full of sex, relationships and 
allegorical resonances.

???


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: kelber at mindspring.com
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 10:02:12 AM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10: Partridge in a Pear tree

Yes, Michael, that capital You is a small case 'you' in the later 
HarperPerennial Classics edition. 

And, I sorta always thought he, artist, is so committed to his art, he'd rather 
sleep alone....
In his 'chaste army cot'...

Or, do others think he just doesn't want to do it with Esther, "after 
Schoenmaker cut her off"????



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 9:52:39 AM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10: Partridge in a Pear tree

Didn't notice that one, Michael.  Guess I was too busy being offended by the 
crack about the Sunday Times crossword puzzle.  Phony?  Hmmmph!

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 4, 2010 1:56 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10: Partridge in a Pear tree
>
>Slab says "Unworthy of You" in his criticism of Esther's interpretation.
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>Is the capital "You" another Harper Perennial typo?
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>I'm not sure why he's turning down sex.  It seems like a pretty
>steadfast offer on Esther's part.
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>-- 
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>liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
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>Adam Smith