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[alice malice]

It certainly captured the attention of the critics and students. Maybe
the best epiphany in P?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:40 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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