V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"

[Richard Ryan]

Probably should mentioned that the great novel of cunnilingus as a
gateway to mystical experiences and higher knowledge is likely
"Whistle," the final installment of James Jones's WW II trilogy.

Some listers may well have adopted this point of view years ago in a
pre-literary, experiential mode.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> LIKE as they say on Facebook...as solid speculation, imho.
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> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 12:34:24 PM
> Subject: Re: V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"
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> at the risk of being told to put a sock in it...
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> before the series, there was a movie called the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
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> The protagonist tells his counselor at college that he wants to take
> the easiest classes possible and just concentrate on girls.  The
> counselor helps him in this quest, with maybe just a very polite
> expression of a possibility of other ideas...
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> Strictly idiosyncratic, rigorously non-serious interpretation:
> young Pynchon, studious almost to a fault, of Anglo-French descent (a
> Pynchon was on the beach in 1066) and lean...
> fantasizes about being a very different person:
> what's the most different he could be?  Italian-Jewish, portly, and a
> non-intellectual chick magnet...blundering from one romance to
> another...
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> but into the fantasy creeps Stencil, the slow return of the repressed,
> threatening to make sense of the whole thing...
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Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty
of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises.
    -- Hannah Arendt