Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[Michael Bailey]

>
> how we do go on!  "such larks"
>


but i mean, the ripples from the skipping stone...

plink
Brecht

plonk
the Marseillaise

plunk
the Marquis de Sod

these are brought in lightly, painlessly, humorously but the literal
"grounding" of the social movement, like parents grounding a child, but
also 'going to ground' like a fox on the run, which is sort of what zoyd is
doing, which again is a further development of what the marquis did in
leaving dramaturgy for lawn service - going to ground - looking for cover,
for a liveable rhizome

a-and the imposition of the sadistic domination on the grass, in his ads
(in full costume, whipping the grass, and the grass saying "we love eet") -
parallels the apparent mass approbation depicted around the Reagan
Administration, eg

and he pulls in even the marseillaise,  like the original California
landscape so heedlessly sodded over, in this celebration of dominion over
nature

but that isn't even half of what's in the passage!



-- 
“It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every
day/for lack/of what is found there” - William Carlos Williams
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20120911/52b9a2ec/attachment.html>