MB DRO ROSHI

[Monte Davis]

And coming up, a 65th anniversary: on Aug. 10, 1949, as part of a
cabinet-level reorganization of the US armed forces, what had been the War
Department since 1790 became the Department of Defense. Less than three
weeks later, the USSR would test its first A-bomb -- an announcement that
"defense," in the sense that great-power history until then would have
recognized, was becoming obsolete. Deterrence, retaliation, annihilation,
yes -- but not defense.

Lather, rinse, repeat for "Homeland Security."


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Cover-up-Soldiers-Hiroshima-Nagasaki/dp/1468127403/
>
> On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "Do you suppose something has exploded somewhere?  Really--somewhere
> > in the East?  Another Krakatoa?  Another name at least that exotic
> > ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 642)
> >
> >    "At the instant it happened, the pale Virgin was rising in the
> > east, head, shoulders, breasts, 17° 36' down to her maidenhead at
> > the.horizon.  A few doomed Japanese knew of her as some Western deity.
> > She loomed in the eastern sky gazing down at the city about to be
> > sacrificed.  The sun was in Leo.  The fireburst came roaring and
> > sovereign ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 684)
> >
> > ".. a scrap of newspaper headline, with a wire photo of a giant white
> > cock, dangling in the sky straight downward out of a white pubic bush.
> > The letters
> >
> > MB DRO
> > ROSHI
> >
> > appear above with the logo of some occupation newspaper ..." (GR, Pt.
> > IV, p. 693)
> >
> > The Enola Gay
> >
> > 588; The Enola Gay, a B-29 built by Pynchon's previous employer Boeing
> > Aircraft, dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
> >
> > http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/e.html
> > http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=E
> >
> > Hiroshima
> >
> > 480; "a city on Honshu, the Inland Sea" in Japan, where Ensign
> > Morituri & family live; "Do you suppose something has exploded
> > somewhere? Really--somewhere in the East" 642; "MB DRO ROSHI" 693
> >
> > http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/h.html
> > http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=H
> >
> > MB DRO ROSHI
> >
> > When discussing GR, the writer Alan Moore recalled this sequence as
> > "the whole point of the novel... It’s just this bit of burnt paper
> > that, if you put it together, talks about America dropping the atom
> > bomb on Hiroshima. Which is of course, the end of the V bomb, which
> > has been made obsolete. Gravity’s got a new rainbow."
> >
> >
> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_674-700#Page_693
> > http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/alan-moore-dodgem-logic/3/
> >
> > "Part 3: In the Zone" comprises 32 episodes, a number some speculate
> > is related to the gravitational acceleration of 32 feet per second per
> > second and also bearing significance to the Kabbalistic tradition. The
> > action of Part 3 is set during the summer of 1945 with some analepses
> > to the time period of Part 2 with most events taking place between
> > May18 and August 6; the day of the first atomic bomb attack and also
> > the Feast of the Transfiguration.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow
> >
> > August 6 is the Feast of the Transfiguration, the celebration of the
> > day when Jesus revealed his divinity to Peter, John, and James on the
> > top of Mount Tabor. (Matthew 17:2 and Mark 9:2.) It has been called
> > "the culminating point of His public life, as His baptism is its
> > starting point and His ascension its end." As an actual holiday, the
> > Feast of the Transfiguration had its origins in the forth century. It
> > is believed that it was substituted for an early pagan feast called
> > Vatavarh, or Roseflame, held in honor of Aphrodite. In an ironic
> > pairing typical of Gravity's Rainbow, this feast coincides with
> > another event on August 6, 1945: the dropping of the atomic bomb on
> > Hiroshima.
> >
> > http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_granalysis.html
> >
> > Through the clever placement of ironic transformations and satirical
> > inversions, there are several focal points throughout the work where
> > two opposing images exist simultaneously, setting up an ironic
> > dissonance -- the fact that Hiroshima occurs on the Feast of the
> > Transfiguration, for example, or that Easter Sunday corresponds to
> > April Fool's Day. Is there a message in such a dissonance? Which image
> > contains the greater truth, or is the truth to be found in the
> > juxtaposition itself? Or do we truly dwell in an observer-created
> > reality, where the only meaning we are allowed is what we create from
> > the primal chaos, where all connections we see are fictions, imposed
> > by us upon the universe in order to maintain an illusion of
> > understanding, a ghost of control....
> >
> > http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_grintro.html
> >
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