BtZ42 pages 116-121 part of whoever he was inside it has kindly remained

[Mark Kohut]

yes, it does, doesn't it?

His pure compressed 'realism' here, in his list-making form. As so often in
this work--Slothrop's desk--and other works. Mucho's cars. When he wrote
the Sales that he couldn't do the traditional realistic novel, he must have
decided on this concentrated form in places. A way that would carry a heavy
load fast.

One other thing is another small example of Pynchon pushing the zero,
so to speak, of normal psychological understanding. Again, as in a few
places in the fictions,
he presents our human psychology--here actual neuroscience--as conditioned
beyond our limited selves.
"They're reassembling....it must be outside his memory"...
I think of the room in Lot 49 which 'knew' things; I remember earlier in GR
where Roger and Jessica's love
existed beyond them...

Isn't it common parlance in our lives to talk about how places remind us?
Here it is.



On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Eileen Pierce <eileenpierce333 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To me this part really captures that feeling of remembering.
>
> "They’re reassembling . . . it must be outside his memory . . . cool clean
> interior, girl and woman, independent of his shorthand of stars . . . so
> many fading-faced girls, windy canalsides, bed-sitters, bus-stop good-byes,
> how can he be expected to remember? but this room has gone on clarifying:
> part of whoever he was inside it has kindly remained, stored quiescent
> these months outside of his head, distributed through the grainy shadows,
> the grease-hazy jars of herbs, candies, spices, all the Compton Mackenzie
> novels on the shelf, glassy ambrotypes of her late husband Austin
> night-dusted inside gilded frames up on the mantel where last time
> Michaelmas daisies greeted and razzled from a little Sevres vase she and
> Austin found together on Saturday long ago in a Wardour Street shop . . . "
>
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