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[Monte Davis]

Make that first line "and by 'Mary Don't You Weep,' a gospel favorite..."

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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