Siege Party at Gatsby's (WAS- Re: 60s..cultural turn inward?)

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Mine and now yours, too. Google says that there is a Michigan boy band called Party at Gatsby's, but I've not heard them. Started thinking about Gatsby again after hearing Curt Anderson's piece on NPR recently:

http://www.studio360.org/2013/mar/29/

V. is always on my mind. The two just seem'd to run together on awaking one morning, and I began to think about that Party at Gatsby's, that long, 1/4 mile lawn from his house down to the Long Island sound, and, of course, the rising water line.


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Seige Party at Gatsby's....love that phrase...yours? Or did I miss a thread or allusion? 


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On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:





Like....


Notice in this piece the metaphor of " crystalline awareness" ......Cf. crystal in TRPs tropes


Ad we all noticed the very V.-themes phrasing of moving away from "knowledge of things" and away from " lifeless objects"....


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On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:40 AM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:



The secular miracle continues, and despite the usual pejorative connotations, continues to make progress. Inwardness is a social phenomenon as well as an individual journey; who are we as much as who am I. Sharing literary experiences is one way of making the journey more interesting. For awhile I have wondered- what is the plot of V.? Finally it occurred to me that at least part of the answer to that question is the recognition that Herbert Stencil is asking the same question, and for many of the same reasons.
 
Herbert, however, seems to have the good sense and self-awareness to guess that he is a fictional character in a two dimensional world. Why else would he refer to himself as "he"? So, he may be further along than many of us, at least in terms of self-actualization.



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re Pynchon and his theme of inwardness.....


I have been thinking of how hard it may be to feel the lack of inwardness by most in the culture
In the time before (my/our) time, since we swam in the inwardness....










Maria Popova (@brainpicker)


4/6/13, 2:02 PM
How humanistic psychology shaped the modern self j.mp/YpABjP



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