Fw: Hi (Don't know if last one sent correctly)

[da kid]

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From: da kid <peterock86 at live.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2017 11:00:00 AM
To: Monte Davis
Cc: Pynchon-l
Subject: Re: Hi Evrybahdy!

Cool thanks. Only skimmed the article so far but I like the idea of purple/green indicating Slothrop is a projection. It agrees with my vague understanding of Pynchon's "hologram style characters" that his ex-gf said he was trying to create. I was wowed by that comment of hers when I read it on some obscure blog because previously I had been a fan of an essay on M&D comparing it's structure to a magic eye a.k.a. auto-stereogram.

I'm currently finishing up ATD so there are two scenes that have stuck with me that I think have something to do with this. One is the scene where the Chums meet the Trespassers at Candlebrow U. where they dematerialize and reappear. At first they have a magenta and green edge to them and then a blue and orange tone (he's more specific of course).
The second is the scene when Kit is at the sanitorium after dodging Foley at Gottingen. This goofy scene features among other things a distracting necktie in magenta and green that if look at right can show entertaining images. I'm personally of the opinion that this scene is one of a handful in ATD where Pynchon rolls out his old standby themes  from his other books. There's a football making a parabola I believe and the jelly doughnut  guy who I suspect is the disguised  Eucharist - cannibalism question of Rec'd Cherrycoke's. Another big part of this scene is the "doctor" Dinkopf's anti-Semitic hangups. He is a proto-Nazi who suspects everyone is Jewish. To me this sounds like Docs phone call to his Aunt in the  Inherent Vice movie (I haven't read that one) about I think Mickey Wolfman- "He's secretly Jewish but thinks he's a Nazi". Dr. Hilarius too. I don't know if all these allusions are supposed to tie in a certain way or if it is some kind of Pynchon montage.
I may be rambling too much here so basically magenta and green has something to do with holograms or 3d projections or perhaps television?

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From: Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2017 8:51:32 AM
To: da kid
Cc: Pynchon-l
Subject: Re: Hi Evrybahdy!

Magenta & green, etc -- "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow", downloadable:

https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/articles/abstract/10.16995/pn.374/


On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:49 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com<mailto:peterock86 at live.com>> wrote:
Hi I've been reading the p-list archives for a little while now and admire the ideas of alot of the people here. Entries by Andrew Dinn, John Bailey, Doug Millison among many others are Imho far better than New Yorker or NYT essays for understanding​ TRP's books. I have tried to talk about Pynchon on Reddit but I rarely ever encounter anyone who really wants to dive into the text. So, I am excited to hopefully discuss some of the theories and whatnot that have been bugging me for awhile. Pynchon's ubiqui-themes like:

   Ourobouros through the ring

Magenta and green specifically and his hangup with particular shades pigments in general.

  Holograms/Layers
  His "cartoonish" characterization that Chrissie Wexler refers to in Lineland.

Vibrating to stay invisible (CoC & Inconvenience, the revealing of America in M&D)

  The Eucharist
   The Holy Ghost and the Pentecost

as well as my pet theories about the Hairy Ball Theorem in M&D and Donald Barthelme as Dixon. I could keep rambling on but I'll stop for now.

Anyways, I hope to get to the bottom of all this malarkey and reveal the authors perverse schemes once and for all...

Pete


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