GR translation: white finality

[Mark Kohut]

Seeing/experienceing a white light is the almost-universal experience of those 
who 'die' in near-death experiences.

This is interesting: the first book in English that characterized this 
experience it seems was Moody's of 1975, 

but it seems from the wikipedia article, which may surely not be complete on 
other scientifict articles that 

Moody had gathered and made known his case studies for years before 1975....



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sat, July 2, 2011 3:05:25 PM
Subject: Re: GR translation: white finality

Not a simple meaning.  He's using the color white to mean not purity (as 
Westerner's tend to think of it), but death.  The inside of the zero is white 
(unlike the number one, which is all black).  So white implies nothingness and 
death.  And in saying the word "odd," there's maybe a flash of white teeth, so 
toss that into the mix of meanings.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 2, 2011 2:17 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: GR translation: white finality
>
>
>P87.3-4  Odd, odd, odd--think of the word:such white finality in its closing 
>clap of tongue.
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>What is the meaning of the the word "white" here in "white finality"?
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