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

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/3/2012 11:48 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> "the hunter arrived at last"........?

You sayin' the hunter is a human person?

Maybe I'm missing somethin' but thought it was a hunter of souls. The 
hound of heaven sort of thing. The hound hunting the hare. God, in that 
case, doing the hunting. Only maybe not God exactly. Some other more 
secular force. Calling Y.

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I could be 100 percent wrong. Just tossing things out for discussion, etc.

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> On 6/3/2012 10:26 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>  > That's Reef we're talkin'...
>  > yes.
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> Thought it was some Higher Power. The Pyncher maybe.
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>  > *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net
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>  > *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto: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
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>  > 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"
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>  > >
>  > > a little close reading -
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>  > > 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.
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>  > > -- 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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