BtZ42 Back to some basics: White Visitation

[Smoke Teff]

The way I understand Pynchon's cosmology, white exists on an end of the spectrum in the opposite direction of black. But really the spectrum is an Ouroboric cycle. Perfect whiteness or blackness then are not only realizations of the end of one direction of the spectrum, but are the conditions of passage between. When the conscious mind glimpses something powerful in the unconscious mind. When we approach death, er, transformation. 

Perfect whiteness obviously the unification of all light--light before it scatters into the differentiated colors of a rainbow, say. 

As whiteness approaches infinity, Slothrop's personal density approaches zero. Or vice versa. I forgot which. 

> 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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