M & D Read

[jochen stremmel]

veil'd to be unveil'd, like a bride, like God's sanctuary ...

2015-02-10 12:49 GMT+01:00 alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>:

> Page 57, the last sentence of the final paragraph for this chapter
> .
> "So they pass, Mason's women and Dixon's, with more in common than
> either Astronomer will ever find out about, for even phantasms may
> enjoy private lives,--shadowy, whispering, veil'd, ever safe from the
> Insults of Time."
>
>
> The Astronomers play a game.
>
> There must be obstacles. For Dixon, "attendant Inconveniences", "Wills
> and Preferences", though these women must be "comely and willing", and
> for Mason, "fair copies" of "forbidden" Rebekah.
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > p. 68....Pynchon's comic genius:
> >
> > "Though he [Cornelius] usually departs with an Erection, it is
> > possible that he is feeling the pain of
> > an ineptly shot Beast."
> >
> > Above, his wife, treated like the stereotype of an all-powerful Queen,
> > like Cleopatra, the surreal absurd of White Privilege? ....is all the
> > time Pynchon spends on the women, sorta about White Matriarchy here in
> > Cape Town? Whereas V. and GR explored Maleness as destructive?
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