Re: LISS/STEPVR where’s my jumper

[ish mailian]

Never watched Moone Boy. I will look into it.

I don't read Zoyd's dream as troubled. Perhaps my comparison with
Poe's narrator (The Raven) suggests troubled dreams, but Zoyd is no
Gregor Samsa. I brought Poe's poem in to provide an easy example of
the confluence, the mixing of dream and non-dream, with history,
including the author's and the reader's, even of events that transpire
after 1984, the attack on Iran.  Pynchon is known for his use of
anachronisms. These come in many forms, and this is one such. So Nixon
shows up in GR. He mixes media into dream, into history, into readers.
So, you, dear reader, like  watching an opera, with Maxine Tarnow
watching it with her old man, and maybe it's apocryphal and
anachronistic.
 So Mr. Thoth:

 "That cruel old man," said Mr Thoth, "was an Indian killer. God, the
saliva would come out in a string from his lip whenever he told about
killing the Indians. He must have loved that part of it."
"What were you dreaming about him?" "Oh, that," perhaps embarrassed.
"It was all mixed in with a Porky Pig cartoon." He waved at the tube.
"It comes into your dreams, you know. Filthy machine. Did you ever see
the one about Porky Pig and the anarchist?"

Not troubled but nudged.  It's a nudge not a knife.

Know much about Nudge Theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory




On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:57 AM peterthooper at juno.com
<peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
>
> Ever watch Moone Boy?
>
> Anyway, our jumper, Zoyd, is snuggled on page 3 with the creeper fig, the carrier pigeon, Bush 41 (requiescat in pace), Poe, Whitman, and Ned Bottom (no wonder his dreams are troubled)
>
> Per the redoubtable ish mailian:
>
> This sentence demands explication.
>
> — “this sentence is not self-referential”
> Oops! Better: “this sentence is not only self-referential”
>
> Those not fond of exegesis can walk out. Like so many did when Richard
> McKeon fixed us on a sentence, a word in Plato,not for a day but for a
> term. Or Derrida on his "pharmacy" in the Phaedrus.
>
> —- I’ve heard tell of some of those good folk - had a prof like that, in terms of patient devout text-attention, & because he did, one could smoke in his class. Rarely took advantage of this however. Dr Umphrey the good.
>
>
> Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe. That cat suffered from negative dialectics. The silver bells of love’s laughter morphing into their antithesis.
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