Re: GR translation: Slothrop’s Visitor

[David Morris]

Not worth much...

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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