Against the Day

[Alex Colter]

Readin' AtD for the first time and was tempted to go back and re-read that
'grounding' of the boys, after the first encounter with a Trespasser I
believe, when they join the Harmonica School (or whatever it was,
can't-find-the-damn-page) until at length Pugnax and the Inconvenience all
seem'd the idle memories of schoolboys, inebriated by dime-novel fantasies.

I think Counterfly, like Slothrop, is intended to be our buddy Tom. Instead
of Counterfly it is a "grounding" of the *Inconvenience* & her Crew to
assume a new member that begins the novel, Chick having spent his life
until then flying from town to town as one or another of his father's
Schemes fell through or failed to materialize. He becomes 'Science Officer'
aboard the *Inconvenience *but I feel this is more from a Surveyor's desire
to delineate and map, having spent so much of his early life unable to 'get
his bearings' being ever dragg'd from place to place...

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yes, that is what I implied by concentrating on P's earthy grounding of
> him.
>
>   *From:* David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 9, 2012 11:01 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: Against the Day
>
> How about "Against Flying?"  Seems more apt in a book title "Against the
> Day.
>
> Also, remember that group in GR call the "Counterforce?"
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Chris Birks <traditionalgb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Counterfly = Barfly?
>
>
>
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