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

[ish mailian]

Sure. And that poor derelict, that tramp whose fantasy, not the fantasy of
a clergyman or some other middle aged man of means, but of a
leering  derelict, his, only his fantasy, not there on the film, but only
in his mind, and only in Pirate's and Your's Dear Reader because it's
someone else's. That sizzling sound is bacon.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/12/graham_greene_and_shirley_temple_what_to_make_of_the_novelist_s_sexual_review.html


On Thursday, March 24, 2016, Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To overplay my hand here, Ish your analysis reminds me of Graham Greene's
> review of Wee Willie Winkie (1937)...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 24, 2016, at 6:49 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > One things for sure, it's not Aqualung's
> >
> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:47 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>> What to make of the tramp?
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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