Again St. at Recur Rd.

[Mark Kohut]

Just miscellaneously learned (or relearned)...I may even have posted this already
but since this thread is entitled Again St at Recur Blvd....
 
There was this lit crit/cultural crit guy in the McLuhan tradition named Walter J. Ong...
whom I think I once learned mid-life Saul Bellow was even reading anway, in a
nice bit on some Shakespeare metaphors he spoke of the incredible, when right,
"double focus" of a metaphor which led me to think, single-mindedly that 
 
Iceland Spar itself may (also) be a metaphor for metaphor......


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From: Bled Welder <bledwelder at hotmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 4:10 PM
Subject: Again St. at Recur Rd.


It recurred to me to picked up Against again a night or so ago, and I was on a whopping 250, if you can believe my sometimes sneaky, dubious bookmark.  Like I remember.  I scanned forward some pages, nothing, so I scanned back some pages, okay I might recall some of that bit, what, what if, what Part is this?  So I went back to the beginning of Iceland Spar and okay I remember this bit because I thought it funny Pynchon mentioning the mushrooms before the Ship of Fools navigate into the center of the earth, much as one does the black hole at the center of the brain, and there's this portion about the, going back a few pages, naturally, say, here, 114, changing part of the original aragonite of pearls, secret, hidden signals, fungus harvesting at the edge of the planet's interior...

And it carries on about "that mysterious mathematical lattice-work" [all such references to mycelium]..."pioneers arriving in airships"..."clandestine transmitters" [mushies] ..."scouts of Earth's Field" [] ..."polarized light" [easy one]... and then to the whole p.131-134 section, announced topic being "The Nature of Expiditions," and this is a whole discussion about the experience of the Cybe.  He even chucks in some eternal return I see, and this would have been right after I was describing to you how one fully experiences the return with the Cybe, but can go outside the eternal recurrence into other timeless dimensions, then return back into this dimension, which recurs eternally in time, again and again, which I was thrilled to not a few days ago, reading Michael Cremo's Impact that the, dang I don't have the book with me I'd quote it, cosmology of Gaudiya Vaishnaya resembles, recurrence within certain cycles of time with other outer dimensions
 probing about, loitering at the corner of Again and Recur.

Iceland Spar, not the part title, but the doubly-refracting calcite, what's that if not psilocybin?

Anyway, the whole reason for my writing this, is is that what the rest of this 300 page Part is about, if not what's it about, what happens as it turns out, because I may be doomed to read a hundred more again, forget, then come back to that which I remember again...
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