BtZ: Some more banana molecule stuff

[Keith Davis]

I was just discussing with someone the music of P's writing, the beauty of
it, and the challenges. It requires a certain ear to hear it. GR taught me
how to read in a new way. Then there are the deeper meanings.
A teacher that I admire once said, "Don't come here unless you want to lose
everything."
And so it goes....

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​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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