BtZ: Some more banana molecule stuff

[Monte Davis]

​The only solace ​I've ever gotten from Pynchon is the world's
*connectedness*-- not that it's benign or just or tending towards
betterment, but that there are always more surprises in store about how
people, events, ideas, Weimaraner eyes and eraser shavings on a desk fit
together. It's not even that he "makes sense" of the world for me... more
like reminds me that it is one world, and how burstingly full.

I can't say I get less pleasure from GR 43 years on, but I definitely
wouldn't have gotten as much from M&D earlier in my own arc. I feel like
I'm still growing into that and AtD.

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:42 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks, Monte. I do find your posts very informative. my question is a
> broad one. Based on what we know about GR and what you've described below,
> one may argue that GR is not a book one holds dear or looks for solace in
> our advanced years--at least that's what Ive been pondering lately. Without
> taking anything away from how transformative the book was for this reader
> in my early years, I can't help but feel an ever increasing distance from
> it as the years get shorter and one begins to see death as a tangible thing.
> I believe we find the tools we need to get through life as sanely and
> humanely as we can when we need them and then move one
> what says you?
>
> rich
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've sought but not found coherence and consistency in how GR's symbolic
>> geology, biochemistry, etc.  link life, death, and various layers of the
>> earth. That scumbled bananery topsoil, the soil in which a Herero woman is
>> ritually embedded, the hot radioactive mud at Bad Karma, and the deep
>> strata of metals and hydrocarbons all have different symbolic freight, and
>> each bears a different relation to natural life and assorted unnatural
>> analogues of life. Likewise, flight gets a few good vibes, but its
>> extension intso pace travel is clearly nixed and __nicht_ed as a route to
>> Good Transcendence.
>>
>> Sometimes I think Pynchon never got the memo about the fruitful,
>> nourishing, ever-rebirthing Earth Mother and the wise, justice-dispensing
>> Sky Father -- or even the one about the brawny dumb earth god and serene
>> Queen Selene. He's just a suspicious cuss all around.
>>
>>
>
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