V--2nd how about that ending, eh?

[bandwraith at aol.com]

To describe it on this plane you'd have to use
an analogy, e.g., "Going up is like going north."

You'd be moving into imaginary territory, but
with ties to the real. It would provide a complex
analysis of adult behavior.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 4:53 pm
Subject: Re: V--2nd how about that ending, eh?


it used to be a commonplace that we lost thousands of brain cells
every day, although I think there is some doubt being cast upon that.

However, it's for pretty sure that children often perceive things more
vividly than the adults they will become...coca cola, or grape juice,
while still tasty, certainly used to be a much more delicious treat,
for instance...and often authors' passages written about children take
on extra sense and feeling, at least it seems that way to me.

But anyway, you firmed up the point I was loosely referencing: I knew
there was something about TSI but hadn't zeroed in on the contrast
between the construction of Carl and the deconstruction of V. which is
certainly more cogent than the slightly different reaction I had
(something like - at the ending of V., the main characters melt away
Shakespeareanly, quod erat demonstrandum)

The kids in Vineland and CoL49 meeting in dreams, what kind of math is
that, do you suppose?


bandwraith wrote:
>
> V. is about differentiation, which the Maltese
> children perform on the B.P. In the S.I., the
> kids perform the reiprocal of differentiation.
>


> They form a bridge for the imagination of the
> readers, the loss of any one of them might
> make the traverse impossible.
>
> Children are of fundamental importance in
> Pynchon as the receivers of the given- of history.
> Whether they are used or abused is an open
> question. Certainly they resist, but they carry
> within themselves, each of them, their own
> limitations, and remind me of us. It's why it's
> better to have many lines back into the fog history
> rather than a single line- for the sake of continuity,
> and the preservation of our past.
>
> Penny?
>





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