Continuing the Wreckage

[Mark Kohut]

your pronunciation and reading is correct...check it out....Greek grammar marker 
on the
first Agape, not the second....

So, still a reference to Agape here, yes?

And, there is that nurse in hemigway's Farewell---modeled on the real one
he fell in love with and

A wonderful use in a later Coetzee where she bestows a physical act unasked
for and unexpected.......



----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 11:37:24 AM
Subject: Re: Continuing the Wreckage

On 4/12/2011 10:41 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Can't locate the page in some hurriedness at the moment
> but I made this note to post.......................
> 
> when Wyatt is being taken care of in his sickness there
> are a couple good and kind nurses which gives him his
> 
> first knowledge of "indifferent love"........known as
> 
> Agape in those thological circles we are all inhabiting which is
> also  the title, when repeated, of Gaddis' last work....

I read his title as uh GAH pay  uh GAYP  (Love with your mouth open) (but not 
oral sex or anything like that)

Is this correct? (didn't actually read the book)

Anyway, Freud was suspicious of non-instinctual  love.  A dangerous 
practice--loving thy enemy.

In the old days (here I go again) you used to hear good women say they didn't 
want to be paid for their kindnesses to needy people.  Their reward would be in 
heaven. Maybe this is why home care is so poorly paid.

Physical (sexual) love administered in conditions of serious life threatening 
sickness is not all that uncommon in literature.

Of course there was Jane Russell in "The Outlaw."  But just recently it happened 
in Carlos Fuentes'  novel "Destiny and Desire."  The nurse tending the young 
orphan hero of the novel had been very professional up to that point. And later 
the single instance of departure therefrom was not mentioned.  The patient got 
well and blossomed but the novel didn't improve much.  Finally gave up on it.

P.




> and I would bet from the way he repeats that it is an ongoing theme
> until and thru then................
> 
> 
> And I'll bet this is autobiographical from a time in his youth
> when Gaddis had such nursing care for something?
>