AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.

[barbie gaze]

An Inconvenient Society, one that, from a Victorian position, above,
censors free lovers and the arts, even as the boy peepers descend into the
darkening shadows of the White City. It's quite an ironic and humorous
take; Pynchon's narrative seems on the side of the free love movement and
not on that of Society. That the constructive censors plan to erect a moral
standard in the decling and closing Wild West, even in a white pasteboard
mask museum world, by un-natural and un-nature-ing processes, and thus
making of the transparent  eyeball of Emerson's Transcendentalist and also
of his God, an opaque and impenatrabile sky, is worth considering. I
suppose, but I'm probably just wrong again.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I think part of the historical reference is to Emerson's famous essay,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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