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

[Mark Kohut]

One reading of ...the dreamed words ...'*your sound will be the sizzling
night..eh?" *might be clued by that dream...."part of the usual list of
prizes"  [WTF?] ..."out of some indoor intervention of charcoal
streets"...???......so Girl Guides pumping water
on charcoal streets might produce the sound of a sizzling night?

Charcoal streets can't be good in P's world, they are not even paving
stones but a symbol of cities built on industrial elements,
carbon and ash?

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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