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[Bled Welder]

Beautiful.  I spent an eternity reading your lovely email.  No longer, gladly, most glad.
I am now inside my unconscious.  Which is also your unconscious.
I can see, visibly, eternity.  
Now as it is happening, forwards and backwards.  I am eternal recurrence of the same.
O am Ginside the mind of one of my main characters, Goya, after a rather large increase in wattage, 

inside Goya now at Kukulkan around say 990ad., exploring the terrain with the two main characters, Elliot and his elder sister by two who was born with no eyeballs whatsover, no appatuses to speak of.
An anyway shortly before meeting the great shaman, I am forgetting his name, this was a hundred or so pages ago, I think this was a few months ago I came back to Goya with my now years later rewrite and wonderfully sober mind


> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:59:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: Back to AtD & Iceland Spar
> From: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
>  Bled Welder wrote:
> > El Lewderino:
> >
> 
> there's a phrase in Chaucer - "lewed or learned" so I guess the
> opposite of learned is lewd?  Anyway, Lew isn't very lewd in AtD,
> except that one time...
> 
> > ...(snippage of interesting alcohol material)
> 
> I was enough of a teenage drunk that I basically ruined drunkenness
> for my adult self.
> There was this horrible social shift about 1971 or 1972, from
> occasional pot and acid and mescaline with body rushes and mystic
> visions and laughter, to constant beer and wine with bad driving and
> throwing up in embarrassing places and it just wasn't fun, and nothing
> since has happened to change my attitude.
> 
> (although a couple times a year, a beer tastes good, and a little
> brandy in one's coffee can be nice every so often)
> 
> > but the Labor
> > struggles in Colorado are not too thrilling, mildly interesting, which is
> > where I'm stuck.  Webb, Kate's fatehr, was just killed.  I'd love it if
> > focused on the anarchists rather than the ever-tedious unions....
> >
> 
> hmm, actually there's little enough about the unions per se...
> lots more about dynamiting, detectives and hired killers and the Traverse boys!
> 
> Pynchon's choice of material to focus on in Vineland was IWW, probably
> the most extreme union ever, and his choice in AtD is Webb, who is
> such an extremist that the union doesn't send flowers to his funeral,
> iirc, and has a conniption when his daughter Lake ice skates with one
> of the bosses' kids.
> 
> but his choice of capitalist is Vibe, who is equally intransigent, so...
> 
> anyway, something I would write a book on, perhaps, or more likely
> read one, would be Labor Temples - I ran across this phrase last year
> and apparently there were a bunch of them.
> http://citynoise.org/article/4639 has a picture of the front of the
> Seattle Labor Temple, and the comments underneath indicate one person
> doesn't even know what it is, and another person gives a description
> that hearkens back to the 1919 general strike...

 		 	   		  
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