It's all theatre.

[Smoke Teff]

I didn't realize that about the fireworks. I like that. Maybe relevant: I
was just reading Slothrop's memory of the Great Aspinwall Hotel Fire
(p.29). I love this part, especially as counterpoint to Pirate's
contemplation of sky's theatre earlier. And love it interwoven with
Slothrop's memory of his nightmare-memory of the Northern Lights.

...neighbors stood out on their porches to stare up at the shower of sparks
falling down on the mountainside..."Like a meteor shower," they said, "Like
cinders from the Fourth of July..." it was 1931, and those were the
comparisons. The embers fell on and on for five hours while kids dozed and
grownups got to drink coffee and tell fire stories from other years.





On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> -
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>>>
>>
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