Manger Beetles

[Mark Kohut]

Sic, I see now, falling beetles....nice ob again.....this to me is one of those offhand brilliancies of TRP----
who could have had the beetles doing anything, doing nothing but beetling along the floor but instead 
he does have them falling, which might have occurred to him when conceiving the scene as another joking
way to work in an overarching metaphor--gravity----like the great metaphysical poets beloved of his fave
T.S. Eliot and reminding me of all the offhand choices of words and images, etc. which are in Shakespeare
and have been unearthed in all their coherence by 400 years of scholars. Coherence is the thing. Overarching
another thing...
 
NP: Did you know, according to J. Bate, a real Master Shakespearean (despite the Swiftian pun), who lives in 
Stratford and gardens, and other historical scholars of gardening say that EVERY PLANT allusion in Shakespeare
is real and in season in the plays.??!!
 

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 From: "bandwraith at aol.com" <bandwraith at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:45 AM
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Yea, and the GR beetles are made aware of "their savior" by the effects of gravity, i.e., falling. Not sure if the ATD trope is extending to non-Western paradigms, as well.



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But god as reified Nature makes all the beetles...... 
 
But this wonderful connection to the beetles in GR ties in, perhaps, P's lifelong use of the trope.... 
Mocks "savior" with beetles in GR; mocks Transsubstantiation itself in Against the Day.... 
Yet, open-meaning genius, his image leaves what we might call transcendent mystery 
Within Nature..... 
In My Unhumble Bloviating.... 


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On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:22 AM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

 
Was it the Gwenhidwy section of GR wherein the manger beetles were portrayed a'tumblin' in the straw when "their savior" moved, or farted, or wharever?Just this side of scurrilous, but humorous none the less. At any rate, I prefer Frank's luminescent beetles to the manger variety- less at the mercy of a collicky god.   
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