BE: echoes in coastal waters

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As one who grew up in a town on the mighty river's bank, I can say he certainly has the correct example of water polluted by industry.  But I can't imagine anyone at any time feeling on the edge of possibilities sailing up the Passaic River.  Now the Hackensack ... 

“and for maybe a minute and a half she feels free—at least at the edge of possibilities, like whatever the Europeans who first sailed up the Passaic River must have felt, before the long parable of corporate sins and corruption that overtook it, before the dioxins and the highway debris and unmourned acts of waste.”




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From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 5:19 am
Subject: BE: echoes in coastal waters



We’ve so often quoted (and recognized in TRP) this from Fitzgerald: 
 
“…gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent…”
 
It’s dawn, and Maxine and companions are in a boat on the Arthur Kill near Isle of Meadows, a huge NYC landfill site:
 
“and for maybe a minute and a half she feels free—at least at the edge of possibilities, like whatever the Europeans who first sailed up the Passaic River must have felt, before the long parable of corporate sins and corruption that overtook it, before the dioxins and the highway debris and unmourned acts of waste.”
 


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