Oedipa's Nighttown. Goes out to The Mexican Girl in second last para, so to speak.
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 12:30:58 CST 2016
Apart from the visit to Hades/the Underworld -- is there something in this
section of CL49 (I don't have the book handy) that might justifiably be
read as a transformation of men into pigs, a metamorphosis (if not a "met
him pike hoses" which would presumably be under the responsibility of a
different department in the Ministry of Witchcraft and Religious Beliefs)?
We are talking about Circe, after all...
How about the deaf-mute ball at the hotel?
And, I know I incline to make unnecessary associations but, is it
improbable that the Virgil - Dante - San Juan de la Cruz axis is an
influence in all that underworld stuff?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:18 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Iin V., Paola Maijstral turns men into swine and spreads her magic
> from Malta to Virginia and back again.
>
> Lots of Men in P-fictions like the girls young and rebellious,
> adventurous, and, did I mention young.
>
> Put a dead cat on the railroad tracks
> When the wolf bains
> Bloomin' by the tressel
> And get the eyeball of a rooster
> And the stones from a ditch
> And wash 'em down with bilge water
> And you say, "You'll never snitch"
>
> Take the buttons from a yellow jacket
> The feather from a buzzard
> The blood from a bounty hunters cold black heart
> Catch the tears of a widow
> In a thimble made of glass
> Tell your mama and your papa
> They can kick your ass
>
> Poison all the water in the wishin' well
> And hang all them scarecrows
> From a sycamore tree
> Burn down all those honeymoons
> Put 'em in a pillow case
> And wait next to the switch blades
> At the amusement park for me
>
> Strangle all the Christmas carols
> Scratch out all your prayers
> Tie 'em up with barbed wire
> And push them down the stairs
> And I'll whittle you a pistol
> For keepin' nightmares of your blinds
> Them son of a bitches always
> Seem to sneak up from behind
>
> Syphon all the gas
> From your daddy's pickup truck
> Fill up Johnny's T-bird
> I got a couple of bucks
> Put a little perfume
> And ribbon in your hair
> Careful that you don't wake up the hounds
>
> Tear a bolt of lightnin'
> Of the side of the sky
> And throw it in the cedar chest
> If you want to tell me why
> Bring the gear shift knob from a 49 Merc
> And lay down here beside me
> Let me hold you in the dirt
>
> You're gonna tremble
> Tear the throat out of the night
> Sink your teeth into my shoulder
> Dig your nails into my back
> Tell that little girl to let go of my sleeve
> You'll be a woman when I catch you
> Come baby, fall in love with me
>
> With my double barrel shotgun
> And a whole box of shells
> We'll celebrate the fourth of July
> We'll do 100 M.P.H.
> Spendin', someone else's dough
> And we'll drive all the way to Reno
> On the wrong side of the road
>
> On the wrong side of the road
> On the wrong side of the road
> Wrong side of the road
> Wrong side of the road
> Wrong side of the road
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > Interesting thought.
> >
> > Apart from the visit to Hades/the Underworld -- is there something in
> this
> > section of CL49 (I don't have the book handy) that might justifiably be
> read
> > as a transformation of men into pigs, a metamorphosis (if not a "met him
> > pike hoses" which would presumably be under the responsibility of a
> > different department in the Ministry of Witchcraft and Religious
> Beliefs)?
> > We are talking about Circe, after all...
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:09:53 -0500
> > Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Been thinking on Oedipa's all night busride in Lot 49. pp 98ff
> >>
> >> I do think it might be intellectually inspired by Joyce's Nighttown
> >> section in Ulysses, where we encounter the brothels and lots of
> >> the underclass worlds so to oversimplify. You can look it up.
> >
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