M&D - Chapter 10, (a few annotations)

[Mark Kohut]

p. 93 "pink illumination"....What do nose sizes supposedly show about
men?...what does 'Show me the Pink" mean?
TRP continues the Lolita allusion...young, very young Tenebrae "would
have further'd his education" beyond an
affectionate kiss on the cheek,,,,

That vagina synecdoche was illuminated by the Lanthorn representing the Sun....

Argue with this reading: Pynchon praises cunts here to the skies with
this bit; presents that female organ
as full of light, the light of an indoor, representative
sun.....reminds me of all the cunnilingus [affectionately called
'pussy eating'] in Inherent Vice.....

yet, of course, with Lolita, and fantasizing, all over this text, the
Tenebrae remark marks it as 1) that male fantasy
stereotype--the willing female--- as was the whole Vroom household
(supposedly)  2) shows women did have/do have
sexual desires which Western history had always buried.



On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> Continuing in the chapter -  (chapters are approximate because I'm reading on a Kindle app)
>
> Following the sermon the text gives us Cherrycoke reporting on the activities of the family as they retell and play out the story of the 1761 Transit of Venus.
>
> p. 94:
> "Orrery"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery
>
> Jules Verne's:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlgyXY3vPd4
>
> At Christies's for only $37,098 an 18th century orrery/tellurian:
> http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-boxed-american-orrery-and-tellurian-set-5480154-details.aspx
>
> "Tenebrae" - in Latin means shadow or darkness) - reminds Ethelmer of his darkness in the innocent light of her youth.  (Not sure what the illuminated nostril suggests.)
>
> ** Are these two kissing cousins?  Or was there some kind of abuse involved at some past point?
>
> ********
>  p. 95 -
> "...having travers'd the Sea"
> Traverse is the family name in ATD and Vineland. Metaphor, fer sure. For more, see ch. 3, p. 14
>
>  "Nessel" - is fictional but the discovery of a new planet is real - Uranus - 1781.
> "Georgian"  -   Herschel first reported the discovery of Uranus ("Georgian")  on April 26, 1781, initially believing it a comet.[12]
>
> **  and from Otto's page at http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/md/md10.htm
> "This reminds me of another "new planet" in another novel by Pynchon, "(...) The new planet Pluto (...)." (GR 415)
>
> Nessel (fictional?) provided Uranus for the Orreries to make sure they were updated.  And for extra realism he pasted map pieces on it - Mappemondes - (a two -hemisphere map),  but that won't really work because flat maps don't conform to their three-dimensional realities.
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mappemonde#mediaviewer/File:Delisle_-_Mappe-Monde.png
>
>
> Solar Parallax:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
>
> Any parallax is a triangle - which by definition has 3 sides - a Jesuit, a Corsican and a Chinaman - fwiw and whatever that's about - etc.
>
> Bek-
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