TRTR Wreckingnitions Crew comes back

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/22/2011 11:31 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> C'mon everyone...have you reread this section?
>
> speculations:     There are no bad Annunciations....!
> yeah, getting The Word, Pentecostal tongues is so
> wonderful, that content trumps all style........
>
> But. outside of that, we have art that is "increased powers of
> eyesight"...Sees Reality heightened?.....Projects a World?
> Since pure reality is not ..what?...sublime enough?
>
> 'another blue day"...simply another blue day of reality 'doesn't quite"
> [do it? have it? IS it?]...that simple life, when heightened, loses its
> reality?

All I can think of is that  a blue day is a bright day, a promising day, 
a day on which good things might happen.

Also some people see objects in colors, like for me Thursday is blue. 
But that hardly applies here.

Completely without relevance is the fact I'm reminded of that "little 
patch of yellow" in Proust--describing a famous painting.

In the context of the Wyatt's  painting (here seen in reproduction) I 
can only think blue is the color in which Mary is often portrayed.  Blue 
is said to reflect purity.  Does this correspond in some way to this 
particular painting's seeming to,  rather than reflect light,  project 
it?  Especially Mary's garment?" The painting reflects purity maybe.

"The Annunciation" would be another vehicle for Mary to emit light from, 
with the Archangel Gabriel looking dim in comparison.


P






> the late John Leoanrd in a long NYRof Books review of five new American
> novels---all I can remember besides what I am going to write below is that
> one was by Chabon---- wrote something like........
>
> That the meaning, height, of life is just existing, playing ball on a perfect
> summer night
> sums up what many of our best writers seem to believe...
>
> I remind us all of that 'perfect picnic' day in Against the Day and I think of
> Dandelion Wine
> perhaps allusively buried in Lot49 and is this the same (but different) in The
> Recognitions?
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> http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2011/06/mary-oliver-reads-the-summer-day.html
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> To: Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 11:08:11 AM
> Subject: Re: TRTR Wreckingnitions Crew comes back
>
> On 6/21/2011 8:48 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>> Premise
>> So, do we agree that almost all the remarks made about art or Art by
>> the minor more sick crew in TR is satiric, to score off them, people like
> them?
>
> yeah, a lot of them are pretentious snobs about all their laboriously acquired
> European culture.  The fifties had a lot of that.  Serious music, art,
> psychoanalysis.  Forgive me, Gaddis admirers, but I sometime feel it's not just
> the characters that display this trait but the author himself.  True, literate
> reader DO enjoy seeing and recognizing all those famous lines of poetry and
> philosophical and theological treatises, but doesn't it tend to detract a little
>
> of what a novel should do. Of course that's the question, what SHOULD  a novel
> do.  To quote a famous GR line, anything you want it to do.
>> But not (necessarily) when Wyatt, Basil Valentine and say Recktall, philistine
>> manipulative businessman talk about it, correct? .....[doing business is being
>> in touch with reality and
>> "some say it is only through being evil that one touches reality....AND
>> business
>> could live so powerfully independent
> the prisons of the country are filled with authentic people. Also the
> boardrooms.
>> of every other faculty of the human intelligence]. Strong words.
>>
>> Now hold that thought and add the discusssion on p238 ff about 'projective
>> art'....."increased powers of eyesight"   
>> and that 'another blue day' ....."because the blue, it doesn't quite,....it
>> isn't"....
>>
>> What's that all about?
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