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[Monte Davis]

The Ark. the rainbow, and the rocket parabola  are linked by Genesis
9:12-16 and by a gospel favorite that Whappo might know.

"And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual
generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring
a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature
of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all
flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature
of all flesh that is upon the earth."

"God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water but the fire next time"


On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Crutchfleid or Crouchfied (and I just let surface associations of the
> words play around my mind, crutch, crouch,  This whole scene is purposely
> anti--logical. Purposely beyond cause & effect and even associational
> clarity, unlike the exegetical reasoning we use on other names and actions,
> yes?
> This  section has seemed to me to be largely about The West, westward man,
> the clue. Perhaps the West in Spengler's meaning but at least in the "Go
> West, Young Man" U.S.-meaning? Crouching toward The Frontier?  That jingle
> and all those 'ones' have signaled conceptual, stereotypical narrowness to
> me, as in 'singled lines', as in half of a binary---Half-an-Ark, nice
> joke---as in the absence of plurality, of diversity, of a variety of
> judgments, perspectives.
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:36 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 67 (Viking) One of the most mysterious and (for me, at least)
>> difficult-to-like passages begins when the central character of the dream
>> sequence switches from Slothrop to Crutchfield. (I see him as a pre-image
>> of Weismann. Southwest - Südwest.)
>>
>> So there is "one of each of everything". I can't quite connect this to
>> anything that can be conceptualized, and it may be wholly surrealistic,
>> but--
>>
>> as opposed to what we can read in PynchonWiki, imo this is *not *a nod
>> to Carl Jung ("not archetypal (...) but the only").
>>
>> Now there is this song on the next page (the second one):
>>
>> "Well one little fairy, even one bull dyke,
>> One litttle nigger, one little kike, One Red Indian" etc.
>>
>> This would suggest that with emphasizing "one"-ness, Pynchon targets the
>> kind of WASP, male, homophobic way thinking that became the main object of
>> social criticism during the next period. That is, thinking in stereotypes
>> about everybody else. I don't know when this particular passage was
>> written, but seems to reflect the turning point of 1969, augmenting
>> Black-related stereotypes with the rest.
>>
>
>
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