V. strand wolf in the fog

[Bled Welder]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Lewis Zhang <lewiszhang at gmail.com> wrote:

> V., pp. 297
>
> enemies that would be with him to the grave: a sun with no shape, a beach
>> alien as the moon's antarctic, restless concubines in barbed wire, salt
>> mists, alkaline earth, the Benguela Current that would never cease bringing
>> sand to raise the harbor floor, the inertia of rock, the frailty of flesh,
>> the structural unreliability of thorns; the unheard whimper of a dying
>> woman; the frightening but necessary cry of the strand wolf in the fog.
>
>
> Can anybody help me deconstruct this amazing piece of imagery?
>


Lewis, there is no deconstructing that piece of imagery.  I mean you can
deconstrust it all you want, toss in nifty meanings and quote "scholars"
with opinions too on the matter.

What you just quoted?  It means *nothing*.  It's just a kid jerking off.
That's *all* it is.

I asked you to beware Pynchon studies, and you came up with this.  I'll ask
you again: save yourself.  That piece of trash you just quoted *means
nothing*.  I mean literally.  It doesn't mean anything.  Get over yourself
as a literary agent.  That shit means nothing--but sounds great.  That's
it.  I just gave you Pynchon in a nutshell.

Beware, again, my son, of adhering to anyone who finds "truths" in
Pynchon.  They aren't there.  If you think you will find guidance by
listening to Kohuticus or Well In Town....your fucked.  Don't go there.

Imagine being a genius, but with nothing really to say.  Now think
Pynchon.  Realize it, man.

Has Kohutikus really, in our worst nightmare, just spent three days
discussing the meterorites in Against on page 986, one little paragraph, at
the bottom?

Then Well In Town comes in with vast sources of people who anyone with a
brain realizes is a Gypsie rippoff..  Because so is Well In Town.  Ask
yourself: does Well In Town *have*  a personality? Does Kohutikus?

Not really.  They're fucking robots, man.  Believe it.

Watch carefully the way they respond and write posts.   They're bots.
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