AtD: sideways Lew

[Mark Kohut]

Bekah writes:
P. 44:    I was thinking more along the lines of an alternative to "seize the day." 
 
Rereading one can follow--count---the times something 'of the day', 'against the day' is used......Most deeply, TRP
puts down how almost no one but the rich like Vibe---could seize any days....History was a 
State of Seige so they had to work too hard, do too much just to stay alive......and blasts tear
'a fabric in the day'...so much conspires against the day (just livin' in it)............
sufficient unto the day [is the evil thereof]....alluded to by Webb upcomingly and in GR, the wiki reminds me.
 
 

From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: AtD: sideways Lew

Well,  Mark-  good buddy - you finally got me to take that bod-builder of a book down. (It was on the top shelf!)  And there on page 44 were those very words,  all neatly underlined plus a great big  happy-face and 2 asterisks in the space beneath them.  I'm very bad with good books and the better they are, the worse I am.  I had to get second copies of Pale Fire and Underworld due to my fierce and passionate marginalia.  It may be time for AtD. 

P. 44:    I was thinking more along the lines of an alternative to "seize the day."  Lew - he's a good ol' boy,  he just steps aside,  takes a trip,  and grabs a bit of grace - in that or any other order.    (I think he just trips out from time to time.) 

And yes, those lines on page 51 are excellent but I didn't mark anything there.  (Had I marked every excellent part of AtD my book would be made of ink.) 

"He found himself out by factory fences breathing coal smoke, walking picket lines in various of woW.C.I.'s thousand disguises,  learning enough of several Slavic tongues to be plausible down in the deadfalls where the desperate malcontents convened, fingerless slaughterhouse veterans, irregulars in the army of sorrow,prophesiers who had seen America as it might be in visions America's wardens could not tolerate."

Bek

On Feb 12, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> p. 44 Lew could "step to the side of the day." .....where he went had its own history (and more)
> "Not exactly invisibility. An Excursion." ...............(like tourists?, p.53)
>  
> Is this a positive or negative quality of Lew's?  Or does that exclude a middle---ye old 'depends'??
>  
> Misc. Isn't the line "irregulars in the army of sorrows' finer than fine? p. 53 I think...
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