BtZ42 Back to some basics: White Visitation

[Smoke Teff]

I think that's a big part of it, as are all the pathological extensions
And corollaries of the type of supremacist thinking that transfers value from the family to the tribe to the race  to the color itself, in all contexts

Each transfer growing more divorced from a classification that is knowable or useful in any way, until it is something inhuman, caustic

Bleach

But then white is fucking everywhere in this book and refuses--even at any single moment--to be collared into one resonance or another. 

White seems to suffuse Slothrop's senses in that passage with Glimpf and the railcar--when G lights the flare it seems Slothrop is getting glimpses of the something in his unconscious mind, though white is also the team color of the conscious mind (am I getting slipshod with some of the psych here?)--the symbiosis of a stimulus and an unextinguished response. 

Can't find the place in the book at the moment but I know white is used elsewhere in the context of a looming...presence/something inside a person's psyche. Perfect whiteness. Maybe in direct association with someone talking about the archetypes. 

As regarding the white visitation white seems to have largely to do with the color of inquiry, of the lab, the insatiable clinical hunger for information and knowledge of the day (still resonates; you should see the new LED streetlights going up in some parts of Chicago; They do not want us to have any night at all). 

White here the color of, as Ginsberg would have it, Moloch. White moloch, whose name is the mind. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Whose mission is to extinguish the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit. 

White the color of the rocket strike. White the color of the brightest, evilest hour of the day. 

Also the white of Weissman. 




> On Jun 9, 2016, at 5:52 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> First, after we've just gone thru the 'race' chapter, the White means whites, in its major meaning, right? 
> 
> vis·it·a·tion
> ˌvizəˈtāSH(ə)n/
> noun
> 1. 
> an official or formal visit, in particular.
> 2. 
> a disaster or difficulty regarded as a divine punishment.
> "a visitation of the plague"
> synonyms:	affliction, scourge, bane, curse, plague, blight, disaster, tragedy, catastrophe; More
> 
> And, in Catholicism at least, the visitation is what some call the invitation and fact of visiting the family w the newly-deceased body in a funeral home.  
> 
> 
> Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee
> https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9401206945
> María J. López - 2011 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
> The seminal dimension of the categories of penetration and visitation is highlighted, as these are shown to operate not only on a spatial level but also on an epistemological, physical, psychological, hermeneutic, metafictional and ethical ...
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