BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Ray Easton]

Thanks.  That's something I'll mull over.

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On April 3, 2016 7:10:47 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I actually  asked myself the same question after my post. It’s just the 
> language which is Bloat's thoughts as He looks at the map.
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>  “with silver (labeled “Darlene”) sharing a constellation with Gladys, 
>  green, and Katharine, gold, and as the eye strays Alice, Delores, Shirley, 
>  a couple of Sallys—mostly red and blue through here—a cluster near Tower 
>  Hill, a violet density about Covent Garden, a nebular streaming on into 
>  Mayfair, Soho, and out to Wembley and up to Hampstead Heath—in every 
>  direction goes this glossy, multicolored, here and there peeling firmament, 
>  Carolines, Marias,… ”
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> Either the poetic language of the narrator is leaking in to Bloats 
> observation or there is a shift in tone, which is what I perceive.
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> Excerpt From: Thomas Pynchon. “Gravity's Rainbow.” iBooks. 
> https://itun.es/us/7vp3F.l
>> On Apr 3, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Ray Easton <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On April 3, 2016 12:47:44 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>>> Bloat is clearly envious and also simply mesmerized by the map.
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>> What in the text suggests that Bloat is mesmerized?
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