V-2 -Chapter 9 - prolegomenon & apologia

[Michael Bailey]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> First off, a tip of the hat -- and the potential flexing of other bodily
> parts -- to my worthy constituent MB,

Thank you!

>who managed to get  the Hoi-Polloi of
> the P-List to wake up and bandy about the structural edifice of these
> missiles
>

of course, in the ecclesiastical history read, we spell that "missals"


> [the author quitting his day job] Which he did.
>

to write it at all was pretty darn good; to write it in his early 20s
while holding down a day job...
quite rather amazing!  I can't help hearkening back to my own early
20s, when even though I had the examples of V. and GR to aspire to,
admittedly I did write 3 chapters of a sci-fi Roman A Clef where the
Reagan character was named President Stuhlsampel and the protagonist
Bensom N Hedges...I can't go on...

but comparisons are odious, best to focus on the work.

> And yea, in these early pre-dawn hours, awaiting the Sun's resurrection as
> Aus Liebe from Bach's BWV 244 floats drearily by my right ear, in the hour
> of my deepest weed, confusion must be wrought.
>

and you are the one to wreak it!


>. Glancing idly at the first pages I see several reams of
> exegesis awaiting.

and with a wild surmise...

> Assuming I can tear myself away from this blown-up image
> of the Paul Foster Case Temperance card I'm now painting and amending


PFC?  what happened to the Daffy Duck Deck?

> Or
> the new Somali "Clio" who carries the catfishing toy right to my feet, like
> it was my job or something.
>

can you prove it's not?  A cat may look at a king...

> As I recall, or this computer recalls, the young author quit his day job at
> the Bomarc Service News before publishing this premature tombeau.
>

a tombeau?  apparently this is a musical composition for a funeral.
So do you mean that it was published prematurely, or that the demise
elegized (that of V., or of Western civilization, or the Goddess
principle?) hadn't actually happened?

quit before publishing, but not before writing it...

> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_together.html
>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWiUErA9Kw

>
> Whatever doomsday paranoia ripples through these books laid before us to
> eat, that paranoia was born from the author's personal experience. If
> Mondaugen's story resonates, perhaps it would be due to the author's easy
> identification with Mondaugen and how easy it could have been for the young
> author to have followed him down that path..
>


yes, that seems like a reasonable assertion


-- 
- But you can wade in the water
and never get wet
if you keep on doin' that rag (Grateful Dead, "Doin' That Rag")