Re: GR translation: Slothrop’s Visitor

[Mark Kohut]

in one of only three Google Books citations for "Slothrop's Visitor", a
book sez this:

"in the last pages Slothrop scattered becomes "Slothrop's Visitor".......

for what it is worth.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or the voice or whisper of Death.
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have always read "Slothrop's Visitor" as Death ala Death in The Seventh
>> Seal. just fyi.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:12 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hearkening back to the tombstones in the graveyard where Slothrop's
>>> ancestors are interred, Death is capitalized (once, as Insatiate Death).
>>> The scrawled lines of carbon on a wall could refer to the weird death of
>>> Hiroshima victims whose "shadows" were etched on walls.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mike Jing
>>> Sent: Apr 25, 2016 7:53 AM
>>> To: David Morris
>>> Cc: Monte Davis , Pynchon Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: GR translation: Slothrop’s Visitor
>>>
>>> Oh, there's no question that he uses them very carefully.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply, Monte, David, and Mark.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>>
>>
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