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The Rocket and the Whale: A Critical Study of Pynchon’s Use of Melville
Author:Levitsky, Zhana

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:29 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Whiteness of visitations from Above, from Below, and later the
> White Finality and the whiteness of the rocket/whale....our postmodern
> friends used to call this symbolic use over-determined and our
> mathematical friends might call it an overdetermined system.
>
> The death and life and grace configurations are infinite at least.
>
> God's Grace can do wonders.
>
> In Catholicism, it is held that the purpose of this visit was to bring
> divine grace to both Elizabeth and her unborn child. Even though he
> was still in his mother's womb, John became aware of the presence of
> Christ, and leapt for joy as he was cleansed from original sin and
> filled with divine grace. Elizabeth also responded and recognised the
> presence of Jesus, and thus Mary exercised her function as
> mediatrixbetween God and man for the first time.[1]
>
> 1.  Holweck, Frederick. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The
> Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company,
> 1912. 11 Oct. 2013
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Correction: Looking it up, I find "visitation" in Catholic parlance refers
>> to Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth, mother to be of John the Baptist.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> YES!....
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "White Visitation" a code name, always appearing in double quotes, stands
>>>> for something secretive, namely  this inter-governmental long-named
>>>> organization whose purpose is supposed be to try out any outlandish scheme
>>>> anyone can think of that might possible contribute to winning the war.
>>>>
>>>> The name itself sounds plausibly like a Catholic hospital or convent.
>>>> Angel Gabriel appearing to the BVM.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Atticus Pinecone
>>>> <atticuspinecone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Like a symbol?
>>>>>
>>>>> As for technique, is it far fetched to think he used Burroughs's cut up
>>>>> style? They have similarly snarled syntax.
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:55 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ok so I made a pretentious title for this post which is pretty much
>>>>> > just a random idea/question. When I was reading Gravity's Rainbow I got the
>>>>> > feeling that some of his proper names particularly The White Visitation were
>>>>> > like, the possible term escapes me, words inserted after the true name had
>>>>> > been erased. Like if you are listening to a recording of someone talk and he
>>>>> > keeps mention someone but when he says that name a computer voice chimes in.
>>>>> > God this is the worst attempt at explanation. But anyways I was wondering if
>>>>> > maybe this idea could connect to Pynchon's "layering" technique of writing.
>>>>> > Any thought?
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