Back to AtD. Frank. Violence. Modernity.

[rich]

duck, you sucker

no doubt Pynchon has seen it. if you haven't you should

"in the end, all i believe in is dynamite"

rich

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> pp.984--985   'maquina loca'....Frank lights some fuses in his locomotive and
> sets it in its collision course with the soldiers'.....
>
> But he (almost) can't jump off...Frank's certainty that jumping or not jumping
> was no longer the point, he belonged to what was happening......which was
> "speed, air rushing, the smell of smoke and steam, time whose substance grew more condensed
> as each tick came faster and faster.....the mutual horns shrieking...the little engine shuddering in its frenzy [Little Engine That Could?]...
> a single great chord that gathered in the entire moment.........
>
> Death, eh?...almost the moment of, but saved by a
> bug up his nose that brought him back to the day.........
>
>    And modernity with Marinetti's Futurism described a lot like that
> as with The Juggernaut earlier as well..........
>
> Frank, in this act, "belonged to what was happening"....the real bad shit of modernity...........
> I, like Alice have a hard time seeing---here at least--Pynchon on the side of violence in the Traverse
> clan thru Frank....