Immachination

[Mark Kohut]

Mike,
You asked whether Ms. Chambers use in the title of an essay held any clues.
Here is the relevant section from that essay (which I can send whole to
anyone
who will read it; don't want to clog the Group Read )

"Such naivete
invites perversity and self-destruction, leaving each dogged by a
"personal rocket" whose "target-seeker" is stored in the "heretic's EEG"
(GR 727):

the spikes and sussurations of heartbeat, the ghost-blossomings of
personal infrared, each Rocket will know its intended and hunt him, ride
him a green-doped hound through our World, shining and pointed in the
sky at his back [. . .] (GR 727)

Aware that a radical solution must be experientially felt as well as
intellectually perceived, Pynchon combats technology with his own
"fireburst" "roaring and sovereign" (GR 694). Casting the rocket as the
"green-doped and silent hound" is a stroke of imaginative genius that
does more than reveal the devastation wrought by a mechanistic world
view: it transforms the technicalized word into the poetic word,
redeeming the experimental, paradoxical quality of language."

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Correction: Kathryn Hume (not Bloom)
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:32 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Bloom sez:  "Immachination is not identicle to inanimatio; it represents
>> a more threatening, more novel developmen, the evolution of a new sybiotic
>> life."
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Harold Bloom tackles Immachination.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=8H82abxpCZgC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=Immachination&source=bl&ots=94U9o2wrTO&sig=ssLpUcPBwXHxVwt52He6v2-oEUw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk5qT63tfLAhWHwYMKHSkDA4sQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=Immachination&f=false
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone yet put the word alongside incarnation for comparison?
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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