GR translation: until the monitors are there in blashing sheets of earth

[Mark Kohut]

A fun search online seems to show this: 'monitor' is a concept from Norman
O. Brown (again seemingly adapted from some cultural anthropologists'
notions) but used in his two major books.

The monitor, a construct obviously,  mediates between Eros and Thanatos is
what is implied.

Seed in his book on Pynchon writes: "The same threatening monitor is
present ('Lord of the Night'), the same helplessness......this snippet goes
on to say "this notion was further developed by Norman O. Brown" but I can
draw
up only that snippet...

Per the inestimable Morris, yes, I think Joyce is being alluded to 1)
famous Leopold Bloom scene on the toilet  2) perhaps the Nighttown sequence
but surely Finnegans Wakeian dream language...

and GR transition states....

All wrapped in a classic N.O. Brownian theme.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:41 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Your call is as good as any.  This is probably Pynchon's attempt at
> imitating Finnegan's Wake.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V746.2-13, P760.33-761.4   And here he is himself, the big ham, sitting
>> on the toilet, a . . . well what appears to be an unusually large infant’s
>> training toilet, up between the sitter’s legs rises the porcelain head of a
>> jackal with what, embarrassingly, proves to be a reefer, in its rather
>> loosely smiling mouth—“Through evil and eagles,” blithers the Springer,
>> “the climate blondes its way, for they are no strength under the coarse
>> war. No not for roguery until the monitors are there in blashing sheets of
>> earth to mate and say medoshnicka bleelar medoometnozz in bergamot and
>> playful fantasy under the throne and nose of the least merciful king. . .
>> .” well, there is a good deal of this sort of thing, and a good time to nip
>> out for popcorn, which in the Platz turn out to be morning-glory seeds
>> popped into little stilled brown explosions.
>>
>> I know it appears to be gibberish, but what's the most likely sense of
>> the word "monitor" here?
>>
>
>
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