Pynchon--and me.

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, in my self-analysis of the elements I forgot to mention I looked up
the Polaris (missile) again.

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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