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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David and Mark.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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