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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