M & D Deep Duck in flight

[Mark Kohut]

That is so true......

Yes he does this all the time...a little unusually oxymoronic about an
ocean trip yes?
he makes sure we see this in his "all the time' way.....as a global
metaphoric meaning.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:35 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> The flight through what? The blue that is not blue. And the globe
> seems a device, a machine one might hold as a model. Pynchon does this
> all the time. In the old films, the map on the screen, the ship, a toy
> that moves across the arrows, or the model globe is spun and stops at
> the spot we now travel to.
>
> Wonderful chapter of brilliant and humorous characterization. Makes us
> love these boys.
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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