AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.

[Mark Kohut]

I think part of the historical reference is to Emerson's famous essay, Nature....transparent eyeball oneness with nature has been, is being
replaced by the Giant Eyeball of Society, yes the Airship,  seeming to offer 'constructive criticism'  of their nakedness.........and that 
Pinkerton Eyeball is alluded to.......
 
yes, it is brilliantly comic and I think I am pointing to a few more comic elements.....P's great theme of 'being watched' in a macrothematic
sense..................
 
The airship is like Hawthorne's Celestial Railroad sounding in nature........
 
And I'll stand by the rest of my gloss---shooting her, not fucking her---. 

From: barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.


The scene is brilliant comedy, fast and funny, and stuffed with historical reference, so I'm not seeing the allusion to Emerson or to a transparent eyeball;  the boys tripping over and tangled in hemp, in language uses and abuses, in the work and its chains of command, in their petty internal struggles while the ship descends dangerously, then the lads' libidos are focused by the spyglass, the photographer and his lovely subject caught in the collective gaze of boy spies in the sky till the ship seems a giant eye gazing on their art making and they run for the woods. But, I could be way off here.    
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