Red the Negro shoeshine boy

[ish mailian]

That S/B
Links GR to V.

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 7:49 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we look back again to Weisenburger's article, "The End of History?
> TP and the Use of the Past" (1979), not at his use of Dora material
> that P palimpsests with astonishing craft, but at the comparisons and
> contrasts  SW makes of P and Adams, that Henry Adams wrote that the
> continuity snapped in 1900, and that for P the discontinuity of WWII,
> a snap, as in Adams, by the Rocket, now to include even cause and
> effect, we see how essential the reversal is, a rocket strikes, it
> first explodes, then the sound of its coming in can be heard, the
> screaming, that this reversal is not only as SW says, the main terror
> of GR Part I, but also, as SW argues, a continuity of kinds as it
> links GR to GR through Mondaugan's Story.
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 7:19 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wonderful! And I would add that satire, so topical, so contextualized,
>> for an audience and about that audience, including, of course the
>> books they've read, like Macolm X, that serve as parodic material
>> reversed, thus stimulating a reversal of reading. The fear of
>> Blackness is revered, the conditioned White is flushed through history
>> and scattered by Natural forces, Gravity and the Flow of waters, of
>> music, of Orphic Song.
>>
>> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 4:54 PM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 63 (Viking): Malcolm has (at least semantically, as his hair was just
>>> reddish brown) Enzian's colors: red and brown (black). Pynchon new this, and
>>> incorporated it in Enzian's figure (as well as his homosexuality) while the
>>> fictive Enzian's youth predates the real Malcolm's. A case of hysteron
>>> proteron, as Weisenburger would put it?
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