GR 156-170, colors, compounds

[Bled Welder]

I actually know the answer to that: before.
Regarding "seig heil" after the fact, he said it was an "error in Being."

> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:05:14 -0500
> Subject: Re: GR 156-170, colors, compounds
> From: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
>  Bled Welder wrote:
> 
> >
> > I moved to the section start at 156.  Something's going on, something's
> > going on, "AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN" okay check, got it, carrying on
> 
> hmm, that one stood out for me, too...
> not really sure what to make of it, obviously compared to what, an
> army of haters I guess
> t would be funny if they track warlikeness down to a virus
> 
> army of lovers wouldn't necessarily want to beat people  (see Jessica
> and Roger?)
> 
> the backdrop of the section being street fights between Nazis and
> leftists, when you go out and beat on people to express your ideology
> you probably are carrying the virus regardless of the fine points of
> the ideology
> 
> yeah there's a weak point in my line, what about meeting a threat?  --
> is that paranoia or due diligence?
> 
> > fetid back-court existence,
> 
> evocative phrase...maybe that's why they were so ready to hit the
> streets, cruddy housing, a-and no p-list back then to solve world
> problems on
> 
> > ""I'm listening, Herr Rathenau,"..."
> > ""Tyrian purple, alizarin and indigo, other coal-tar dyes are here, but the
> > important one is mauve...", "He is the expert on cyclized
> > benzylisoquinilines...", "This is the sign of revealing. Of unfolding.  This
> > is one meaning of mauve..."
> 
> so they have ol' Rathenau talking in a seance, who anyway is calling
> him forth, I forget...
> okay Peter Sachsa...Leni is there (mostly to get milk for her kid) but
> they also have Smaragd from IG Farben and the Nazi Rippenstoss
> 
> so they are there to listen to Rathenau, whose death at least the Nazi
> Rippenstoss is among those responsible for
> 
> and he gives them a strong lecture that really ought to make them
> think twice (but of course they don't, being Nazis and all)
> 
> > First, revealing and unfolding is what happens with Being when it is
> > thought, according to Heidegger.
> 
> was that before or after he said "Sieg Heil?"
> 
> >
> > Then I remembered that half of my fictional work is about a chemist who is
> > searching for a compound that cures blindness...
> 
> sounds interesting
> 
> > drug is that it causes him to see, either blindfolded or not, everything in
> > shades of violet and white, though mainly a crystal, or methyl, violet.
> >
> > I didn't even know what mauve was until today, or that it had anything to do
> > with Being!  That's just terrific--
> >
> 
> for me mauve is a shade of purple that somehow lacks the joyousness of
> real purple...
> but that's subject to further information...good luck with your explorations!
 		 	   		  
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