Words

[Smoke Teff]

In some of the reading about David Lynch I've done he talks about his
childhood and even large parts of his adolescence as being essentially
pre-verbal. Does not have many verbal memories of that time. Remembers the
shift into processing the world via language as an unnatural and deliberate
one. Away from innate visual-sensual orientation.





On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> This reminds me of a Pynchon story not overtold here or anywhere that I am
> aware of. Which is why it feels uncertain to me now. I somehow learned it
> long before I learned of this listserve and the resources of the web for
> reading about Pynchon. I see myself in a library, probably NYC or Jersey
> City public.
>
> Somebody--my shaped memory says he was a Navy doctor,-- someone who got to
> check out new sailors. He wrote of seeing TRP's Naval test scores....and
> not quite believing in some of them, they were very high--it is surely
> fanboy memory that remembers "highest"--but what surprised him most were
> they were so uniformly high---maths (as the English write it) and
> English...he could see that TRP had been an engineering major before
> entering the Navy, and few correlated so high in language as well....I
> think I remember him writing
> it was not just high vocabulary and exact grammar it was the rhythm and
> natural lyricism in the prose answers that stood out to him, to tie in with
> Morris's good quote.
>
> Now, intrigued, ---and allow for false exact memory from me--I remember I
> think that he, too, was a Cornell guy, or anyway, had contacts there he
> called about this new sailor....
> Somebody did find records then and he learned that despite his engineering
> major, TRP had on record that his desire was, and had been since he was
> young, to be a writer.
> He was as far as this doc was concerned. And to tie in with the V Woolf
> quote, "this is very profound, what rhythm is..creates this wave in the
> mind".
>
> I would appreciate learning, as in some story or other I once read, that I
> have pretty much made this up from some small detail(s).
> OR, how a fanboy projects.
>
>
> PS. Didja know that V. Woolf herself was slow to talk as a toddler?
> Compared to her precociously talkative, slightly older sister? Who became
> the visual artist..
> V's parents were worried she was "slow".....a good biographer has
> suggested her talkative sister dominated her expressiveness at
> first......since it was later reported
> by her parents that Virginia was now arguing back a lot against her
> sister.....
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 3:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Words:
>>
>> Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West: "Style is a very
>> simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong
>> words... Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper
>> than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before
>> it makes words to fit it; and in writing (such is my present belief) one
>> has to recapture this, and set this working (Which has nothing apparently
>> to do with words) and then, as it breaks and tumbles in the mind, it makes
>> words to fit it."
>>
>
>
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