one of today's M & D discussion topics?--until Becky posts her great stuff

[Monte Davis]

That last passage is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That 1851 Crystal Palace and its panoramic, uh, glazing are also among the
> inspirations for the dream milieu of the Evacuation that opens GR, for what
> Maxine first sees of DeepArcher in BE, maybe even for Rebekah & Dixon's
> wedding venue on 187:
>
> "Down near the East India Docks. ‘Clive Chapel,’ as they styl’d it then,
> a Nabob’s Day-Dream, made to seem a Treasure-Cave of the East, with Walls
> of Crystal, Chandeliers of Lenses Prismatick, that could make the light
> of but a single Candle brighter than a Beacon..."
>
> Or even Lepton Castle (412):
>
> "To their alarm, Light shines ev’rywhere,— Chandelier Light, silver Sconce
> and Sperm-Taper Light,— striking them both to an all-but-
> sympathetick Squint. "
>
> The Crystal Palace, relocated with some redesign to Sydenham Hill, was
> destroyed by fire in 1936. Two water towers survived: "The north tower
> was demolished with explosives in 1941.[55]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace#cite_note-time-north-tower-55>
> [56]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace#cite_note-pescod-north-tower-56> No
> reason was given for its removal, although it was rumoured that it was to
> remove a landmark for WWII German aircraft, but Luftwaffe
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe> bombers actually navigated their
> way to Central London by tracking the River Thames. The Crystal Palace
> grounds were also used as a manufacturing base for aircraft radar screens
> and other hi-tech equipment of the time. This remained secret until well
> after the war."
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Another novelty of the 19th century was the world exhibition, the most
>> salient
>> combination of panoramic gaze with encyclopedic documentation. It all
>> started
>> with the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All
>> Nations...whose spectacular
>> crystal palace...has remained in the collective memory."----IBID.
>>
>> For discussion: Has TRP tried to put down a "panoramic gaze' to take in
>> this kind of panoramic gaze....maybe "a panoramic gaze about the end of
>> such panoramic gazes?"
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
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