Fwd: Re: Back to AtD Reimann maths ain't life. p.891

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sun Jun 3 10:26:30 CDT 2012


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Subject: Re: Back to AtD Reimann maths ain't life. p.891
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:59:36 -0400
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

On 6/3/2012 10:26 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> That's Reef we're talkin'...
> yes.

Thought it was some Higher Power. The Pyncher maybe.

P


>
> *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 3, 2012 9:53 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Back to AtD Reimann maths ain't life. p.891
>
> On 6/2/2012 3:05 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>  > quoth Mark --
>  >
>  > "a hunter arrived at last, a trainer of
>  > desert eagles, to unmask against her soul, the predatory descent that
>  > would seize her, fetch her away,
>  > fetch her back, held fast in the talons of communion, blood, destiny,
>  > to be plucked off the defective
>  > Reimann sphere she had been taking for everything that was"
>  >
>  >
>  > a little close reading -
>  >
>  > a hunter arrived *at last* (it's like, hey, this is what she's been
>  > waiting for all this time)
>  >
>  > a trainer of desert eagles (why desert eagles?)
>  >
>  > to unmask against her soul (*against* like against the day, against
>  > the backdrop of her soul, like maybe her soul is a vasty expanse
>  > around her self like the desert sky - sort of getting into the concept
>  > of the soul as all the non-material parts of a person, not just
>  > wishes and desires but all the times and places one has been or might
>  > be going, thoughts, abilities, the soul this huge expanse of stuff not
>  > limited by the confines of the body, but rather a huge expanse like
>  > the desert sky (do I repeat myself? very well, I repeat myself...I am
>  > a vasty soul and I contain redundancies...) which the eagle is
>  > unmasked against
>  >
>  > and thus the eagle, after being unmasked against it, would discern the
>  > physical form within that landandskyscape as a human form - not as I
>  > was thinking a lowly vole or hmm not even a rattlesnake like in the
>  > mural in the pub where Frank shoots Sloat...
>  >
>  > but as a human form to be carried off - this is one puissant eagle -
>  > perhaps even a roc like in Sinbad
>  >
>  > (a-and Reef does the eagle roc with style and grace, having actually
>  > balled that jack* under the mountain pass in der Schweiz)
>  >
>  > fetch her back (like as if she had been truant or escaped from the
> seraglio)
>  >
>  > held fast in the talons of communion, blood, destiny --- (resistance
>  > is futile)(lex talionis)
>  >
>  > to be plucked off the defective Riemann sphere she had been taking for
>  > everything that was (not just "defective Riemann sphere" because she
>  > had imperfectly conceived it due to all the distractions, but also a
>  > sphere with a Riemannian defect, not a simple ball that could be
>  > fabricated in any normal factory or tossed in any normal kind of game
>  > but a weird-butt entity that was as yet only being talked about)
>
> I think this is correct. The eagle's blindfold is removed so it can find
> Yashmeen's soul and carry it away.
>
> P
>
>  >
>  >
>  > -- balln' the jack --
>  > Now, first, you put your two knees close up tight,
>  > then you sway 'em to the left, and you sway 'em to the right.
>  > Step around the floor kinda nice
>  > and light then you twist around and twist around with all of your might.
>  > Stretch your lovin' arms straight out in space,
>  > then you do the Eagle Rock with style and grace.
>  > Swing your foot way 'round and bring it back,
>  > now that's what I call Ballin' the Jack
>  >
>  > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jk1vofEmCQ
>  > (ballin' the jack on ukelele)
>  >
>
>
>




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