"You Can't Run a War on Gusts of Emotion."

[ish mailian]

One things for sure, it's not Aqualung's

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:47 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> I mention the tramp because he is the one who utters the phrase that
> has been identified here as so puzzling after decades of reading and
> re-reading it. Not saying it is easy to solve or even possible but I
> am suggesting that a closer examination of the passage might prove
> fruitful. So what to make of the first encounter Pirate has with a
> person whose fantasy he has, and what to make of the person, the
> derelict, the tramp?
>
> Why does he cause Pirate to threaten him with the police?
> What is it this buttonless tramp does exactly?
> Lusts after girl's bottoms?
> Is that it?
> Not much of a crime.
> Is Pirate afraid to admit, to succumb to his own lust for little girls?
> Does he share the derelict's fantasy, not because of his gift, the one
> the Firm is so keen to harness, or does he just lust after nymphets?
> Does the tramp call him out on it?
> A hot night for Pirate, the sizzling panties?
> Maybe it turn out to be someone else's fantasy. Maybe it's the Readers.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:05 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What to make of the tramp?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Lot of nights in BtZ that could be described as sizzling. Fires in night
>>> skies. Slothrop's Hotel Fire (29).
>>>
>>> pp. 41-42: "They have drawn near a glow over the rooftops[...] Heat beats at
>>> their faces, eye-searing yellow when the streams shoot into the fire. A
>>> ladder hooked to the edge of the roof sways in the violent drafts. Up top,
>>> against the sky, figures in slickers brace, wave arms, move together to pass
>>> orders[...] Once Roger and Jessica might have stopped. But they're both
>>> alumni of the Battle of Britain, both have been drafted into the early black
>>> mornings and the crying for mercy, the dumb inertia of cobbles and beams,
>>> the profound shortage of mercy in those days...."
>>>
>>> The sensitive flame at Snoxall's, which is on my mind when I hear about
>>> Gusts of Emotion.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:41 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Could be referencing burning flesh, I guess, but since sizzling night
>>>> is what the tramp says, not sizzling meat or flesh, metaphorically he
>>>> seems to be describing a sound, a sound that is Yours drear reader and
>>>> Pirate's and whomever the pederastic fantasy actually belongs to,
>>>> and given the naughty sexual context, and mention of the Genital Brain
>>>> above it, I read it as a very very hot night with sizzling orgasmic
>>>> sound. Unless of course the film is silent and it's all theatre.
>>>>
>>>> There are any number of characters who might dream of little girls
>>>> bent over a fountain.
>>>>
>>>> Aqualung isn't one of them.
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>>
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