M & D Discussion post of the day

[Monte Davis]

> what does 'the moment the Planet becomes solid' mean?


92: "Thro’ our whole gazing-lives, Venus has been a tiny Dot of Light,
going through phases like the Moon, ever against the black face of
Eternity. But on the day of this Transit, all shall suddenly reverse,— as
she is caught, dark, embodied, solid, against the face of the Sun,— a
Goddess descended from light to Matter.”

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> p. 75 ...."the most advanc'd Astronomical Device in Creation"....
>
> 'And yet, d'ye not feel sometimes that everything since the Fight as
> sea has been---not a Dream, yet..."
>
> "Aye. As if we're lodgers inside someone ease's Fate, whilst belonging
> quite someplace else...?"
>
> "Nothing's as immediate as it was....We might have died then, after
> all, and gone on as Ghosts. Haunting this place, waiting to
> materialize,---perhaps just at the moment of the Transit, the moment
> the Planet herself becomes Solid..."
>
> Prefatory question: what does 'the moment the Planet becomes solid' mean?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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