C'mon in, the water's fine..

[Erik T. Burns]

FWIW Nick Sullivan in the audio books goes with "gwinn"

could also echo Gawain (gwayne)

for me it was always enough that gWYon and WYatt were mirror images of each
other, each scared of the reflection (what WG's characters do to
mirrors...), not to mentioned the fact of their tangled dna.





On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>wrote:

> From The Readers Guide to TR
>
>
> "3.9] Reverend Gwyon: according to de Rougemont, Gwyon was a Celtic
> divinity whose name "(whence 'guyon' meaning 'guide' in Old French)
> means the Führer who has in his custody the secret of initiation into
> the way of divinization" (LWW 210 n.1). Also relevant are Gawain from
> the Grail romances (see FRR) and Gwion, a semilegendary bard whose
> poetry hides "an ancient religious mystery - a blasphemous one from
> the Church's point of view - under the cloak of buffoonery" (WG 55);
> one of Gwion's poems is quoted at 467.5. (Asked once how to pronounce
> Gwyon, Gaddis said he didn't know; he had never said it aloud. It
> probably should be pronounced as one syllable, like "Gwynne," its
> modern form.)...."
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > So, is Gwyon pronounced like C'mon?
> >
> > "you say eether, I say iither..."
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 8:17:07 AM
> > Subject: C'mon in, the water's fine..
> >
> > I suspect some might not yet have a copy of The Recognitions. Hey, get
> yourself
> > one.
> > We'll all repeat, so you can catch up. Smile....
> >
> > it's worth it.
> >
> > and it takes a whole village to read it.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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