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[Monte Davis]

"[The Wapituil] are fully industrialized, but they don’t seem interested in
taking advantage of it. After the steel mill produced the ingot, it was
shut down."

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Monte,
>
> I simply LOVE the phrase 'this jostling world', writer. In itself but
> surely because it reminds me of
> an oft-enough-quoted line of Milton's, "this Pendant World".....a kind of
> opposite meaning, google it,
> Satan says it in PL....was a fave of mine and a friend during college and
> one day, decades later,  I heard it on the radio..
> Some good FM station, I'm sure, NY area but still.....
>
> "This jostling world'.....can I buy the rights to make pendants? Smile.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I take Joseph Tracy's remarks on Orpheus to heart, and read Crutchfield's
>> (or Weissman's) Southwest (or Sudwest) as a land of the dead, like Jeshimon
>> in AtD, or Eliot's dry Waste Land.
>>
>> If so, "one of everything" becomes a negative/opposite of the crowded,
>> jostling, fecund and prolific living world.
>>
>> (It might also owe something to an anthropological report in Donald
>> Barthelme's delicious 1970 short story "Brain Damage": "The Wapituil are
>> like us to an extraordinary degree... They have a Chock Full o’ Nuts and a
>> Chevrolet, one of each. They have a Museum of Modern Art and a telephone
>> and a Martini, one of each. The Martini and the telephone are kept in the
>> Museum of Modern Art. In fact they have everything that we have, but only
>> one of each thing... They have one disease, mononucleosis. The sex life of
>> a Wapituil consists of a single experience, which he thinks about for a
>> long time.")
>>
>> And does "the central character" really switch from Slothrop to
>> Crutchfield... or is Crutchfield that part of Slothrop which has seen all
>> the Western movies, who has embraced his ancestors' clear-cutting of the
>> green Berkshires?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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