It's all theatre.

[Mark Kohut]

Besides the normal meanings, including "theater of war", 'theatre' is the
name that fireworks' organizers call a sky display. From my post on the
wiki.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like how Pynchon has it all 'poised' under the rocket, book-length..
> Here is
> a looping up of the Evacuation scene near the end:
>
> p. 738, Miller edition "It all poises here. Passageways of routine, still
> cogent enough, still herding us through time....
> the iron rockets waiting outside"....and much more even
> better....including the great phrase "wind-beat moment"...
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:26 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The book ends that parenthesis in the theatre of the closing pages.
>>
>> You could argue that everything in between is a fiction, a film which
>> opens with Pirate Prentice waking into the light of morning.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:45 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > http://grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Why is it all theatre? Just because it's too late? Because they're
>> going to
>> >> die? Or is it also because there's some awareness, on the part of the
>> >> dreamer here, that it's a dream?
>> >>
>> >> In a book of this scope, theatre would be--has to be--the open
>> parenthesis
>> >> on all human endeavor.
>> >>
>> >>
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