[John Bailey]

Also The Quatermass Experiment, BBC miniseries from the early 50s in
which an organic blob thing mutates and continues growing in size
until it takes over (I think?) Westminster Cathedral.

http://application.denofgeek.com/pics/tv/quatermass/02.jpg

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:22 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adenoids were thought to be useless tissue. Might as well remove 'em with
> tonsils.  They did mine. And their name is comedic. I don't think they need
> thunk beyond The Blob movie (except the Burroughs thing).  Sometimes a
> Blob...
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:03 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> Adenoids are different from tonsils - they're higher up, behind the nose.
>> Swollen adenoids are generally a problem in childhood, after which they tend
>> to shrink. When swollen, they hamper breathing, and so they may need to be
>> surgically removed.
>>
>> Some thoughts on the giant adenoid:
>>
>> It first appears to Pirate, some time between 1935 and 1939,  together
>> with "the unmistakable smell of gas." Gas - giant adenoid preventing either
>> a giant child or mass numbers of children from breathing - could be a
>> vision/premonition of the kids who will die in the Nazi gas chambers. "The
>> Army shows up in full battle gear with bombs full of the latest deadly gas."
>> But the giant adenoid cannot be gotten rid of, communicated with or
>> understood. Eventually, Lord Osmo is able to ignore it and focus on the Novi
>> Pazar beat. Osmo dies in a tubful of pudding (connecting him with the
>> soon-to-appear Brigadier Pudding). Two old-school Brits who are still
>> focussed on the politics of WWI - totally unable to address the brewing
>> holocaust.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Kohut
>> Sent: Mar 26, 2016 9:21 AM
>> To: Monte Davis , pynchon -l
>> Subject:
>>
>> MD---So... why an adenoid (i.e. a tonsil), rather than an appendix or
>> spleen or hypothalamus? Why human tissue at all, rather than some other
>> stand-in for Osmo's fears? Its slimy protoplasmic aspect led me on first
>> reading to think of SF movies:
>>
>> more to come but remember that Richard Schlubb, when he is brought in to
>> loop the history is described as 'adenoidal" .....
>>
>> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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