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[Mark Kohut]

my major association is literary history-based....an opening against the
sky from Shakespeare (and earlier I guess) is
in the context of our relationship to the cosmos, our whole world.

Here P shows how the cosmos is against us, all of us. it is screaming with
death and destruction. Decades later in Against the Day
he has screaming under the sands as the Dune-like sand-crawling submarine
moves along its destructive path. Planes that
kill; submarines that kill.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is
> nothing to compare it to now…."
>
> Okay, this is pure and simple association, but I must say the whole of
> Jung's dream plays out quite well with the opening section of GR. Further
> parallels as we go.
>
>
>
> “The crucial dream anticipating my encounter with alchemy came around
> 1926: I was in the South Tyrol. It was wartime. I was on the Italian front
> and driving back from the front line with a little man, a peasant, in his
> horse-drawn wagon. All around us shells were exploding, and I knew we had
> to push on as quickly as possible, for it was very dangerous.
>
> “We had to cross a bridge and then go through a tunnel whose vaulting had
> been partially destroyed by the shells." C G Jung, MDR*,* 203.
>
>
> The Great Wars and the Depression between them left deep scars all across
> Europe. It wasn't just the soldiers who suffered nightmares in the
> aftermath. Jung's descent into the maelstrom led to his fascination with
> alchemy, which in turn influenced the work of Campbell, Eliade, and others.
> MDR was quite popular at about the time Pynchon was working on GR.
>
>
> Any other associations folks can relate to this opening? I think it
> deserves all the color it elicits.
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