Now I think I'm Wrong: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 8 Space/Time scene climax

[Mark Kohut]

and you, Michael,  getting TRP better, are somehow right......

A bergamask in the middle of Manhattan is a satire on the wonderful bucolic 
setting of
Midsummer Night's Dream, yes?....No rusticity, no Nature in Manhattan..
just jokes and parodies about it, yes?   

That TRP, sly as a tooth fairy...            


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 9:34:09 AM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 8 Space/Time scene climax

AND...Oley is a rustic part of Pennsylvania! A rustic dance is sometimes
just a rustic dance?....

(I've just read MNDream and see no connection but this word. Anyone else see 
anything else?)...
there also seems to be a 1962 copyrighted piece on The Bergamask parody of some 
Italian Something....

More Kute Korrespondences but for the stylistic Pynchon parody-use mode. 


The Oley Valley is a valley 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Reading, Pennsylvania, 

United States of America. It covers all of Oley, Pike, Ruscombmanor, ...



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 8:47:03 AM
Subject: V-2nd - Chapter 8 Space/Time scene climax

Back then you could smoke in all kinds of places.  Job interviewers
offered you a cigarette!  Nobody usually even got heavy if you ignored
the no smoking sign in an elevator.  Or so I've heard.  Even though
the verbiage was much tougher: anyone lighting up (by implication,
ANYWHERE AT ALL) when an elevator was in motion would be subject to
some section and dotted subsection of some statute or something!
Nowadays, I notice, the verbiage does restrict the scope of the
prohibition to the interior of the elevator car (and they specify
"igniting any substance")...

William Gibson in his new book noted that the finagling with cell
phones these days has replaced a lot of the gestures and close-order
hand-eye-expression drills that cigarette smoking used to
involve...probably healthier (maybe)

...she sends him to Anthroresearch Associates and it crosses his mind
that she says it faster than he probably could (it doesn't cross his
mind to practice it in front of her: too possibly embarrassing?)

Oley Bergomask - isn't a Bergomask some kind of dance in Shakespeare?  Yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergomask
Bergamask, or bergomask or bergamasca (from the town of Bergamo in
Northern Italy), is a clumsy rustic dance (cf. Shakespeare, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 360) copied from the natives of Bergamo,
reputed to be very awkward in their manners.

Awkward in their manners?  Like a certain profane individual.

so is this a pointer to some Midsummer Night's Dream action?  Some
kind of wacky mate-changing involving internecine squabbles among the
faerie nobility and so forth?

Would Roony and Mafia be like Oberon and Titania?

Puck Bodine?  Decky-dance/Bergomask: same kinda thingie?

Is Space/Time employment a place where Profane, after his ass falls
off, finds it on his head?
Is the association of Rachel with work the major turnoff?

Questions, questions, questions.  And is Rachel blowing a kiss, or yawning?






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