V--2nd. Chap 14, V. in Love

[Mark Kohut]

"Excuse me, while I kiss the sky"---TRP also sez (less loud than Jimi).

I did not know this about the vernal equinox and the 'ages' of the world
but I bet TRP did as he buried another little witty echo within this first novel
about the ages of the history of the world, the West anyway......



----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 1:58:01 PM
Subject: Re: V--2nd. Chap 14, V. in Love

> In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and
> continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path.
>

Note, too, that the precession of the vernal equinox is what provides
the nomenclature for the "ages" of the world, as re: the Piscean Age
that is now transitioning to the Aquarian Age (which, by the way,
according to the literature, should be marked by the dominance of
science and reason--not a hodgepodge of retro-pagan religions.)

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have reread Pynchon's Entropy, written around the time of V.
> New emphases and things to observe and remember but for our purposes here,
> just a couple....
>
> Henry Adams is name-checked in it by Callisto, who may not be the 
most reliable
> character
> in the story so his remark needs weighed for irony but he, riffing on Adams'
> exploring love and power in history sez they are one and the same...........
>
> "Callisto found himself in much the same state over Thermodynamics, the inner
> life of that power, realizing like his predecessor that the Virgin and the
> dynamo
>
> stand as much for love as for power; that the two are indeed identival; and 
>that
>
> love therefore makes the world go round but also makes the boccie ball spin, 
>the
>
> nebula  precess." *
>
>
> In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow and
> continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path.
>
>
>
>



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