TR Pt2 Ch1 Stabat Mater In Gaddis and Pieta in Pynchon

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Here's Stabat Mater by Pergolesi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLKw6kSOqIw

Hymen metaphysica intacta.

On 10.07.2011 00:03, edmoorester at gmail.com wrote:

> TR p338
> —Yes, or your mother?
> —Yes. My mother, he admitted in a whisper, looking back at the picture on
> the soiled gesso, his face drawn up in lines of confusion as though he 
> had just remembered.
> —Yes, is it? Valentine muttered. —The Visitation, then? He laughed.
> —A Stabat Mater? No.
>
> ed's note: this stabat mater will recur a few more times. . .Wyatt 
> misses his mom
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabat_Mater_(art)
>
> Stabat Mater is one of the three common artistic representations of a 
> sorrowful Virgin Mary,
> the other two being Mater Dolorosa (Mother of Sorrows) and Pietà.
>
> COL 49 102-104
> Oedipa as Pieta
>
> "She was overcome all at once by a need to touch him, as if she could 
> not believe in him,
> or would not remember him, without it. Exhausted, hardly knowing what 
> she was doing,
> she came the last three steps and sat, took the man in her arms, 
> actually held him,
> gazing out of her smudged eyes down the stairs, back into the morning.
> She felt wetness against her breast and saw that he was crying again."
>
>
> ed