NP question

[Mark Kohut]

PtH: Almost like the “wandering heart” grain in that desk in M&D! NICE.

And some fine observation and riffing in my opinion.

And, out of Pynchon's vision I might suggest: the spider webbed marble is
the last redoubt of the city built upon a hill.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:06 PM peterthooper at juno.com <
peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> What an interesting backdrop for the managers! Almost like the “wandering
> heart” grain in that desk in M&D!
>
> And what an amazing challenge for them, to set forth the facts
> compellingly. Naturally I had a lot of ideas on how one could proceed -
> but realistically, they are doing as well as one could expect or even hope.
>
> One hopes their speeches ignited the intellects and coaxed the consciences
> of all present, restored them to their rightful minds in deeper reverence,
> awakened a bipartisan consensus to administer justice tempered with mercy.
>
> The obstacles were formidable.
>
> The age-old problem of sustaining interest
> - that’s a toughie right there. Even 10 minutes is a long time to listen
> to someone, imho, and twice as long to talk.
>
> Trying to build rapport with the crowd - appealing to common ground,
> mentioning shared goals, gaining assent to any guiding principles - risked
> becoming an exercise in frustration due to partisanship.
>
> The narrative is replete with details which need to be organized - “you
> will want cause and effect”
> The underlying crookedness, beholdenness to oligarchs, the general Daffy
> Duck despicable nature of the regime, the Pyrrhic victory over the CCCP and
> its kleptocratic aftermath washing up on our shores, the tragic
> miserabilist Mideast interventions, ie the background that makes the tale
> so poignant, isn’t really part of the story - “they got Capone for tax
> evasion, but at least they got him” type of feeling.
> These charges, in other words, aren’t even the worst thing about the Trump
> Administration, and the Trump Administration isn’t even the worst thing
> about the Republican Party (hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis would
> certainly agree) — so I for one would have a hard time coloring within the
> lines, were I they.
>
> Anticipating objections is another frustration, since it seems likely that
> the defense will still raise them and not acknowledge they were dealt with.
>
> I found it soothing to be able to watch the backdrop, but I wonder if this
> staging is meant to be a somewhat demeaning “free speech zone”
>
> (like, those Democrats stood in front of the cracked glass, but the
> President and his lawyers roar from the rostrum, or podium, or what have
> you, with the flag behind them)
>
> We shall see...
>
> Anyway, thanks!
>
> I was looking around the Senate website for pics of the layout but hadn’t
> really zeroed in because there are so many other interesting things to see
> there.
>
> How would a P treatment of this look? A preference for preterite
> protagonists precludes peering through the peepers of the principals...
> perhaps a latter-day Profane could watch the hearings on the Tube after a
> hard day in the sewers. Or Maxine could follow the money.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> To: "peterthooper at juno.com" <peterthooper at juno.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: NP question
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:09:40 -0500
>
> From a NYT story six days ago:
> On Friday, the large tables were again wedged between the front row of the
> senators’ desks and the marble-and-polished-wood Senate rostrum, so they
> could be ready next week for the start of oral arguments in President
> Trump’s impeachment trial.
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:23 PM peterthooper at juno.com <
> peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
>  what is Adam Schiff standing in front of? Marble? Modern art? Spiderweb?
> Cracked glass?
>
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