M & D Discussion post of the day

[rich]

one of Pynchon's wonderful images of things that, just for a moment, brings
us together, only once its transit is run, brought back to our own
individual despairs

rich

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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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