BE images

[Michael Bailey]

ah well, as John said, this will probably all come out in the wash (-:

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> search results for "pear" in V. very interesting
> 186, 300 and 413, sort of symmetrical, then there's this like parable
> in the middle reference of the partridge in the pear tree
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> eidetically thinking, one way that potently always lodges in my mind -
>> such as it is - after reading, including & especially this author's
>> work, is the images that remain, such as
>>
>> pear trees
>>
>> maxine watching the kids leave for school on their own
>>
>> the archer in deep archer -- Sagittarian influence mayhap
>>
>> the person (or entity) at the bottom of the stairs
>>
>> the rachel wig giving way to the lara croft wig (segued in my mind
>> over to the final scene of friends when they give up the rent
>> controlled apartment that belonged to ross & rachel's grandma, like
>> ross leaving the key somewhere or something)(you ask me, joey shoulda
>> bought the building and developed into a rounded character, instead of
>> giving the 6 of them a million an episode or whatever, give them 900k
>> instead and have a few more characters on an ongoing basis (Seinfeld
>> too)) (model it after a soap opera, a big motif anyway as that was his
>> job, eh?) (bring elliott gould in more often, for one thing)(a-and the
>> Friends episodes after 9-11 wow, remember those? the weird piano bar
>> story arc?) but anyway...
>>
>> those few -- anybody get any other potent eidetic takeaways? -- are
>> compelling enough for me to feel like there's enough material around
>> them to be worth unpacking at leisure
>>
>> tryna think (but nothing happens) of the magical realism in this book,
>> voila it is that nose thing, right?  so i suppose that'd be another
>> image, or at least a clickable spot
>>
>> john barth did a lot with computer references for instance in _Coming
>> Soon!!!_ and perhaps there is a traceable influence -- i for one think
>> barth an influence -- like trading eights or something -- on or with
>> TRP although i'm not ready with chapter and verse to prove it
>>
>> & i suppose i ought to quote William Gibson who said somewhere about
>> 9-11 that it changed everything
>> (although i keep thinking of mr natural saying "It was ever thus")
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