Fwd: M & D Deep Duck in flight

[Mark Kohut]

p. 58 ....if P threw out Johnson's a ship is a prison on water as he did,
then here BIGFOOT BRONK describes Cape Twon as like Alcatraz....
no escape....'without hope of salvation" if you flee.......

'aims his abdomen in different directions'......so finely funny and telling...

Bronk warns them against observing their State at all.....'anything
more Worldly" than
the Stars.....


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Date: Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:11 AM
Subject: Fwd: M & D Deep Duck in flight
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p. 58...."Cape Town's fortifications sent crystalline".....
whenever I read crystal in TRP, well, you know......and this whole
'seen as the Astronomers 'rush by from a low yet dangerous altitude

SO VERY LIKE the Chums over the White City, am I right?.....
ends with 'its violent chastity"---more whiteness, sea-changed?

Why would (such) chastity be violent?....the whitewash of their
ways...........


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From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM
Subject: M & D Deep Duck in flight
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>


Chap 7, p 59....The trip is like a flight...why's that?...disconnected
from the watery earth, that reservoir of everything?

flight, back to echoes of GR and, foreechoes of AtD especially.
Flight, not until the 20th Century, the 'modern' era, remember the
diving plane as Futurism, modernity in Against the Day? Is this
evoked?

by happenstance, I have just read this on another voyage to Africa
from Woolf's The Voyage Out: "for these reasons [continent unsettled],
they wanted a slow inquisitive kind of ship, comfortable, for they
were bad sailors, but not extravagant, and they would stop at various
ports...." The upper middle class Dalloways, he once in
Parliament....1920's or so...

"the other half of everything known"....the dark continent, dark with
all its connotations. Esp. slavery.

Becky quoted the line about "all who set foot on EnGlish soil are
free"....Remember the LED who said he was free, "an English dog"....
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