V--2nd, Chap 9

[alice wellintown]

I always suspected that "The Crotch" functioned as the Medieval Center
of Moby-Dick. The chapter numbers, and the pages don't quite divide
here, but there are two "Knights and Squires" chapters, 26 and 27, and
if we use new math to ....locate "The Crotch"

"Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs.  So, in
productive subjects, grow the chapters."

I also suspect that _To the Lighthouse_, with the centre about the
war, is one of the most haunting feminist, not feminist, most haunting
and beautiful paintings of war, put that in your Guernica and poke it
Picasso, in western art, and is, of course, a rejection of the
romantic ethos and mythos of lights charging in bluderous brigades.





On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As many from Prof Krafft thru Robin (who got in line first) knew,
> this chapter is central to the most major historical themes of V.
> It is almost a kind of compacted miniature of V.'s major meanings itself, yes?
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> I learn that Medieval romances, like The Faerie Queen--not Alice's kinds,
> but ancestral first cousins, fer sure,--- often have a central section that
> functions just like this.
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> Also, Misc. P.S. Remember that Pynchon paradox that in GR he scores on
> paper and writing itself? Well, from Love's Labour's Lost, it is said of
> one character, Berowne, found by many to be very like
>  a small-scale self-portrait because of his eloquence and observations:
>
> "How well he's read, to reason against reading."
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