Back to AtD....Tungaska Event, [in late 700s pages]

[Bekah]

Well that's a fine snip for a Sunday morning - (Palm Sunday fwiw).   Yup -  I love that passage  -  it's so Russian sounding and so visual and funny -  I laughed and laughed. 

And now I'm thinking of "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype"  by  Clarissa Pinkola Estés   (to go with Hillman studies and wolves and so on)  which is a very good book but I read it a long time ago -  it stuck though -  

Bekah
" If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith… there is yet time." -  from Women Who Run with the Wolves


On Apr 1, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> p. 784 "Siberian wolves walked into churches in the middle of services,
> quoted passages from the Scriptures in fluent Old Slavonic, and walked peaceably
> out again. They were reported to be especially fond of Matthew 7:15, "Beware of
> false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,but inwardly are ravening
> wolves."
>  
> Hilarious, I think and another take on a steady, deeppersistent theme of AtD---how righteous
> self-justifying religious espousal masks much evil that goes down in the world....
>  
> And wolves go way back as a trope: "Man is a wolf to man."
> 
> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Back to AtD....Tungaska Event, [in late 700s pages]
> 
> Wonderin' if you could elaborate on those wolves a bit. 
> On Mar 31, 2012, at 2:55 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Partial to wolves speakin' The Gospel, myself.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> > To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 1:37 pm
> > Subject: Re: Back to AtD....Tungaska Event, [in late 700s pages]
> > 
> > 
> > Seems like the essence of the "word"  that explodes their world is something
> > along the lines of' 'you are on a ball in space, vulnerable, open to the cosmos,
> > wake up from the limits of your mammalian bodies, your territorial wars, your
> > boys adventure stories." It happens at a time when  science is the new common
> > global language, close on the heels of Einstein's publication of theories that
> > made gravity vanish, based on thought experiments of the motion of particles of
> > light through space, ideas that will bring new explosive dimensions to the word
> > 'atomic' and 'enlightenment'. It happens at a time when the events can be
> > understood in a non superstitious way.
> > 
> > I feel in general Pynchon is pointing out that humans more easily achieve a
> > change of information than a change of consciousness or  mammalian habit. That
> > despite all the promise of cultural transformation burgeoning in western
> > civilization at the turn of that century, the habit of war exercised enough
> > gravitational pull to bind Europe in the bloody mud graves of WW1 and aerial
> > flames of WW2.
> > 
> > Hot year coming up.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mar 31, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> > 
> >> p. 793 The Tugaska Event reveals "the sacred City".....
> >> the Chums "took longer to understand that the great burst of light
> >> had also torn the veil separating their own space from that of the
> >> everyday world"......they had met the same fate as Shambala,
> >> their protection lost"...
> >> 
> >> ..."gravity itself for a moment simply vanished"
> >> 
> >> All textual clues to the immateriality of the Event...
> >> 
> >> The Event = like a religious Visitation revealing the sacred?
> >> Like the Pentecostal Word exploding above everyone's heads?
> >> 
> >> Essay question: How is the Tungaska Event, therefore, similar
> >> and dissimilar from the Rocket in GR?
> > 
> 
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