Back to AtD. Frank. Violence. Modernity.
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 21:59:06 CST 2013
"In the end" means the ultimate. Dyna Might...
http://www.amazon.com/Lalaloopsy-514640-Doll-Dyna-Might/dp/B00840LAB6
She Might be trippin'...
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, rich wrote:
> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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....
>
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