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

[Mark Kohut]

The chess knight..an old, old piece, 7th Century...with associations of
service (to royalty, the State)...
to an MI kind of spy, maybe....the piece with the trickiest move on the
chessboard,
up and over or over and up, able to jump other pieces, the best piece for a
binary either/or 'fork'
that guarantees winning at least one piece.

And there's Knight--night.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:39 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fascinating, as Mr. Spock sez, ...
>
> "He will actually skip to and fro, with his knees high and twirling a
> walking stick with W.C. Fields' head, nose, top hat, and all, for its knob,
> and surely capable of magic, while the band plays a second chorus.
> Accompanying will be a phantasmagoria, a real on, rushing toward the
> screen, in over the heads of the audiences, on little tracks of an elegant
> Victorian cross section resembling the profile of a chess knight conceived
> fancifully but not vulgarly so-... (pg.12)"
>
> I actually love this section, strange personal side note. The W.C. Fields
> imagery, and references which will occur again, as well as, perhaps more
> profoundly, is the chess knight. Blogett Waxwing and Gerdhardt Von Goll,
> aslo know as Der Springer, is another reoccuring symbol...
>
> Perhaps, Pynchon is telling where Prentice aligns on the spectrum, if such
> a spectrum even exists...
>
> An interesting side note...
>
> does anyone out there have any enlightening commentary on "...*your sound
> will be the sizzling night...eh?" *
>
> Not that the plot of the novel hinges on this phrase or anything, but it
> has always kind-of dumbfounded me... sort-of an subconscious commentar ...?
> Don't know...
>
> I leave it to the jury...
>
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