Back to AtD. The atmospheric sun.

[Mark Kohut]

I think that a good case can be made showing how TRP has subverted messages from the heavens
from their possible positive meanings as literary tropes.... from...Shakespeare, Milton.....I dunno, earlier for all I haven't read....
 
Rocket in GR is largest...."lavatorial assults' from Pugnax in AtD, the aggressive jay in Vineland's opening..
perhaps in some way the yo-yoing image of the cosmos early in V. and more including the meteor here?
 
The meteor says "home' to Frank.That is the message. Home. This world. (Not E.T.'s--altho
the meteor was "projecting' its desire too??....love that dual resonance.....)
 
A sad joke since Frank is far from home. Much farther than when Rachel asks Benny to come "home" but home.
Home as Found (a good book about a deep theme in American Literature--Alice, read it?) 
 
This world. 





On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:28 AM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  p. 984 "The sun hammered the barren badlands."  I first want to point to the prose beauty of that simple sentence. 
> those A's, those consonants, that rhythm.  
> 
> Then this from early in V. (after Rachel takes Benny on that ride from hell)
> 'Sun beat down out of a cloudless, unprotective heaven".....
> 
> Atmospheric Wasteland?;Camusian relentless existential Algerian sun; the blistering Florida
> sun on all the retirees in The Day of the Locust?.......The Sheltering Sky......??
> 
> Ain't no transcendant meanings here...and from the meteorites we get ...answers?