M & D Group Read (cont)

[Mark Kohut]

in the chapters around the LED, there are lots of
animal references. Ape. The LED lusting after blood
at Cock-Fights. "How is he supposed to ignore this Edge of
blood-love?"--another Bleeding Edge allusion
and the edge itself--not around the edges as Joseph recently noted ---
is another hard geometric bad shit trope in Pynchon.

"Back at the Cock-Fights", Fender-Belly Bodine.....I seem to just now
notice that the Cock-Fights were ongoing
fictionally in the whole chapter...a backdrop of the whole LED section....

There are the lines about the LED being like a human.

In the wake of the Age of Reason, with the LED as the synecdoche,
it seems Pynchon wants to remind us--delightfully, of course, yet
fully---that we
are still animals, enjoying Cock-Fights---"that Substance which we are not
supposed to acknowledge drips and flies 'ev'rywhere.." Humans, like the LED,
will not acknowledge the blood upon which their lives rest.

In a notional associative way, I remember that luxury liner in AtD which is
also
a battleship albeit unknown to the luxury travelers.


What was that line some Big Political Leader Guy said, last century, when
asked
about the salutary effects of The Enlightenment on the world?
"I'm still waiting to see it." (very paraphrased and shaky memory)
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