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[Mark Kohut]

VERY TANGENTIALLY PYNCHON, IF AT ALL. I'm sure most will think not. So it
goes.


Towards one thematic  answer to my last question?

I hope the quote below appears normally in the archives although it was
lifted from twitter, but text only, I think.

Robert Macfarlane wrote it today, he of a terrif book, name escapes and I'm
not looking it up, which is a definition of all kinds of words and phrases
about nature in English history that are declining in use and even already
as good as lost. Because we ignore them and nature. (There is a crowdfund
site trying to raise enough money to give one to every Scottish student).

Anyway, the ambiguous twist of the last remark, after thinking for a moment
about
the openings of Pynchon's novels, led me to connect the midwinter ones with
P's epigram (from T.Monk) in Against the Day.
All themes connect in P the hedgehog? (look that up if you are interested)

Robert Macfarlane:
Word of the day: “midwinter” - the day of shortest sunlight, when the sun
reaches its lowest maximum height in the sky, & after which the light
begins its slow climb back. The winter solstice; the year’s true turn; my
day of most hope.
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