Immachination

[Mike Jing]

It was Mike Weaver who asked about Ms. Chambers' essay.

I completely forgot the word "Immachination" has already appeared twice in
the book.   Now the word "immachinate" makes more sense.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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