M&D - Chapter 16 - Great Waves of Melancholy on the Atlantic

[Mark Kohut]

 wikipedia: In other words, in a time when the belief in revenants had
been strong in Western Europe, the difference between the revenant and
the folkloristic vampire might have been marginal, but by the time the
vampire became known to a broader audience [late 18th, early 19th
Century], it had received literary modifications that increased its
difference from the now-discredited revenant folklore.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter Schmidt of Swarthmore College points out in his notes for M&D that
> Rebekkah is a revenant, in the fashion of Gravity's Rainbow, and that her
> appearances are stimulated by the St Helena winds
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps because, as a supposed Man of Reason, the continual appearances of
>> her ghost are beginning to disturb him, so he wants to escape from these
>> visions, even though he also wants to speak to her and recapture their love
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:15 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> But why would Mason desire to escape his life's love, whom he dreams of
>>> following into the underworld? Maybe she has become too real? Has her ghost
>>> become less romantic?
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Reading chapter 17 makes the theme about the Wind in chapter 16 a little
>>>> clearer - Mason feels his wife's ghost is following him on the back of the
>>>> local winds, so he needs to escape to a different microclimate in St Helena
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "'Well'! What are you saying, Mason? To be not  well over here, is to
>>>>> be dead. How you have avoided that Fate, indeed, puzzles me".
>>>>>
>>>>> Poor Mason, suffering misery in earthly paradise. TRP captures him in
>>>>> depression, as a man out of step with his cohorts, resigned to being
>>>>> misunderstood by the well meaning but unreflective Maskelyne and the still
>>>>> unencountered Dieter (another visitor from the Spirit World?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Who asks for Break-neck in the taxi?
>>>>>
>>>>> What did 18th century Hungarian and Moorish music sound like?
>>>>>
>>>>>  And what's the importance of the Wind "blowing cross-wise to the light
>>>>> incoming from Sirius, producing false images"?
>>>>>
>>>>> In truth, I'm a bit tired and need to go to bed. Haven't done the last
>>>>> couple of pages justice; will revisit tomorrow ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l