Re: GR translation: Slothrop’s Visitor

[Mark Kohut]

I am in agreement with the estimable Morris here.----(I'll stop this word,
just having verbal fun)---

I have seen it usually as a kind of Reification of something that is not of
this natural world (in the text; as a trope often).



On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:14 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> All these Visitors have in common a form of another's presence (visit)
> that is questionable as to its reality.  I firmly believe that Pynchon uses
> these capitalized words very carefully, and that they can be triangulated.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The only other capitalized Visitors I find:
>>
>> (V262, in Zurich)
>> "The spies and dealers have all gone indoors. Semyavin’s place is out,
>> the Waxwing circle have been kind, no point bringing any heat down on them.
>> How much weight do the Visitors have in this town? Can Slothrop risk
>> checking in to another hotel? Probably not. It’s getting cold. A wind is
>> coming in now off the lake."
>>
>> (V523, among Christian's gas-sniffing hallucinations - Moss Creature,
>> Fungus Pygmies) "... or how about the Water Giant, a mile-high Visitor
>> made all of flowing water who likes to dance, twisting from the waist, arms
>> blowing loosely along the sky."
>>
>> Not sure what you can triangulate from that, but at least blazes on the
>> trees...* in hoc signo vinces...*
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> V742.13-19, P756.39-757.4   Light in the sky is stretched and clear,
>>> exactly like taffy after no more than the first two pulls.
>>>        “Dying a weird death,” Slothrop’s Visitor by this time may be
>>> scrawled lines of carbon on a wall, voices down a chimney, some human being
>>> out on the road, “the object of life is to make sure you die a weird death.
>>> To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird
>>> circumstances. To live that kind of life. . . .”
>>>
>>> What is "Slothrop’s Visitor" exactly?
>>>
>>
>>
>
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