BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Mark Kohut]

NICE, YES....we know Pynchon read (some of) Hillman at least, since he
blurbed one of the books. When we looked up Hillman's life and career, we
learned he was in California probably a lot of the time Pynchon was. Some
old friend--girlfriend?--of pynchon's once said he saw a 'shrink' way back
then, I think. If true. Always wondered if it was Hillman.

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

>
> > Who are the curious (and is that 'peculiar' or 'inquisitive'?) gods...
> let alone their offspring? <
>
> Could imagine that this refers to the gods of war:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_deities
>
> Their "offspring" then might be the *archetypic* (perhaps "pyramids"
> shall indicate this) dynamics the war deities evoke in the peoples.
>
> Like James Hillman analyzed it in his last book "A Terrible Love of War".
>
> The agent of this book was --- Melanie Jackson.
>
> http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-011-3
>
>
>
> On 02.04.2016 03:58, Monte Davis wrote:
>
> On the way into ACHTUNG:
>
> "... a certain  desperate aura here. But Bloat, going in the sandbagged
> entrance (provisional pyramids erected to gratify curious gods’ offspring
> indeed), can’t feel a bit of it..."
>
>
>
> http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/men-resting-on-top-of-piles-of-sandbags-wwii-london-4-september-1939-picture-id102729664
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>
> Help me out with that parenthetical description. "Provisional," sure --
> these aren't for the ages, just for the V-weapon Blitz 2.0. But what's
> Egyptian about it? Who are the curious (and is that 'peculiar' or
> 'inquisitive'?) gods... let alone their offspring? What desire is being
> gratified? And why that "indeed," as if this were reinforcement or
> confirmation of something stated or questioned earlier?
>
>
> I get an echo of p. 9, where the men crushing ice against the concrete
> Jungfrau were "wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier." But it's a faint
> echo, and doesn't help me understand this.
>
>
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