Pynchon--and me.

[Smoke Teff]

Good stuff, Mark. The rocket and peenemunde are in the novel, hidden and in plain sight. Will keep them in mind as I read on. 

Also noticing, this read, lo—er... MANY references to the biblical Lot, Lot’s wife’s husband. Haven’t counted them, yet. 

> On Feb 1, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just awoke from a Pynchon dream---of the text. I dreamed there
> was a missing, therefore previously unread, chapter of Mason & Dixon
> that was the secret to understanding it. 
> 
> It was a list of the things one needed to know to understand it....I read
> the list, fifteen or more items, of which the first was a picture of a/the rocket.
> With the word peenemunde another item. Albert Rolls' new book was another
> (see W.A.S.T.E. on Facebook).
> 
> It ended with the items Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49. it was
> a kind of scanned Table of Contents list. I can't remember other items. 
> 
> 
> my dream self-analysis. I reread Chap 20 of M & D last evening, preparing a short post, 
> leaving my reading with the self-perception that the posted stuff on fathers-sons
> by Smoke and Joseph were kinda new to me. I neglected to feel/remember many of the right thoughts,
> I thought. Too personal, maybe (although I have had a wonderful felt connection to the words
> on the youths; a connection which fed the major thrust of my post--about Pynchon and the creation of human character which
> about all the reviewers loved--to be posted later.)
> 
> I read of Rolls' book cover yesterday. I, in this rereading, keep thinking of textual connections
> to the rest of his work--although this novel may be 'the most different' AFTER Gravity's Rainbow, of
> course. The ending of Lot 49 keeps reappearing as a mental trope to me, as posts indicate. 
> 
> I think that secret chapter of M & D is just the wish fulfillment that there could be such with the
> full felt awareness that his work is never finally finished being understood. As they say about the greats. 
> Another short post on that to come. 
> 
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