MJJG: List-O-mania Intertextual Refs part deux

[Raphael Saltwood]

Great, any way you want to go with it is fine with me.

I originally had a plan to just post 4 times a week but I keep getting interested & drawn in.

(We could open all the 10-pg sections simultaneously and go completely asynchronous, for all of me...)

Glad to hear from you - I used to daydream about moving to North Dakota, sometimes still do on particularly hot days...I was going to condition myself to be a firefighter in the national forests, ND was noted on the Federal jobs website as a location where they needed more applicants - you have to walk 3 miles in 45 minutes with a 45 lb pack on your back, and other stuff.





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From: Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:35:00 AM
To: Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: MJJG: List-O-mania Intertextual Refs part deux

Raphael -  I like your list -  I’ve finished the book and I’ll just start where you are.  Thanks.

Becky

> On Dec 3, 2020, at 8:52 PM, Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
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> 19) p 61 “[Earline] picks up the New-York Sun which lies on the doormat. The headline is about Haiti. VooDoo generals.”
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> The free online archive only goes to 1916, (probably copyright or something?)
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> https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-07-28/ed-1/seq-1/ Is for example the date of the initial US invasion, not the main story of the day but has a front page lede reading “2 Hour Fight Gives Hayti [sic] a New Ruler.”
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> ... doesn’t it seem likely that Mr Reed accessed the Sun Archive somewhere, and responds to their language usage in headlines by either quoting it or quoting slight exaggerations or distortions?
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> Why The Sun in particular?
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> May not be pertinent, but in 1925 after owner Frank Munsey died he left the bulk of his estate, including The Sun, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They sold it off in 1926 to William Duart, but while they owned it, —- The Sun could’ve been a target for the Mu’tafikah!
> (Tenuous @ best)
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>  *    On pg 64 he calls the Sun “the Atonist voice.”
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> 20) pg 71 “Gamalielese,” Mencken’s description of Harding’s prose.
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> 21) pg 71 “The question as to which is more reprehensible, the alleged custom in Haiti of eating a human being without cooking him or the authenticated custom in the United States of cooking a human being without eating him. The Haitian custom would have, at least, a utilitarian purpose in extenuation.”
> James Weldon Johnson, _Along This Way_ (autobiographical)
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> 22) pg 73 “Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. The only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.”
> Footnoted on pg 75 as “Joost A. M. Meerloo, _The Dance: from Ritual to Rock and Roll, from Ballet to Ballroom_  (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1960), p. 39.
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> — more detail than any other footnote so far, maybe he really wants us to read this one?
> —-  the author was an authority on brainwashing, not dancing. But this book really exists. And some other interesting titles by him.
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> 22) pg 74 “Christianity has never been worldly nor has it ever looked with favor on good food and wine, and it is more than doubtful that the introduction of jazz into the cult would be a particular asset.”
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>  *    Carl C Jung, _Psychology and Religion, West and East_
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> 23) pg 74 “...the African deities were fond of food, drink, battle and sex.”
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>  *    David St Clair, _Drum and Candle_
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> 24) pg 75, “The catastrophe of the first World War and the extraordinary spiritual malaise that came afterwards were needed to arouse a doubt as to whether all was well with the white man’s mind.”
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>  *    Carl Jung
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