AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Bailey writes:
"although voyeurism begins a little earlier, with Chevrolette's photo session observed from the sky."
 
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Gonna gloss that scene, --one level of meaning in my reading, anyway.
 
Man and woman in unspoiled nature, the edenic myth, she scantily-clad and willing, he
---with a camera! He, not getting naked and willing, the natural way, but like Teflon
from V. ---wanting to take pictures!----to shoot (to kill) natural desire.
 
Phrase from it "giant eyeball, as of Society itself"  aludes to Emerson's 'transparent eyeball'
from his--wait for it-- famous essay "Nature", in which he argues if we experience nature properly
we are at one with it--sorta like naturally fucking within it---like a transparent eyeball would be.
 
Sorta pantheistic, panentheistic in Emerson's "Transcendentalism", grounded in our natural world.
But Society, capital S, is now the Giant Eyeball, ready to, yes, kinda see us everywhere like it
was Spying.
 
(One thematic strain I am now seeing more fully in AtD, is the strain that finds much hot air
in much of our abstract 'thinking'. Everywhere, early, one sees the air taken out of 
bloviated 'reflections', ideas, ideals, etc.Here, I suggest TRP loves Emerson's vision of nature but laughs at
his "Transcendentalism" (as many do)) 
 
 
 
 
 

From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.


Mark Kohut wrote:
> with Lew's WCI Company and the Chums ship......nice guy Lew,
> a g. 

...ood guy within AtD opens the fact of surveillance in AtD by his job 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-41tg_CS7s 
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