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[Mark Kohut]

We know about Miles Davis from opening Against the Day.....Pynchon likes
him....

The horn keeps the sounds of history from exploding us?......The Trystero
communicate
history softly, quietly, yes, like the deaf mute dance?

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know nothing about the history of the mute Horn mute. But the mute
> “bends” the frequencies of the Horn, often making it sound like spoken
> words. It is quieter, but more expressive.
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> > Why is the Egyptian god of writing, wisdom, magic the namesake of an old
> > man who watches tv constantly and has trouble remembering anything? Also,
> > as Michael points out, he's actually young Mr. Thoth, at the ripe old age
> > of 91.
> >
> > The muted horn. Meant to be a silence of sound? The muted horn in jazz
> had
> > created some amazing, subtle sounds from Miles Davis and others around
> the
> > time Pynchon worked on this book. Could this be describing how the
> Tristero
> > works: subtle and muted, not for all but for the aware?
> >
> > Pynchon reduces his reliability by making this an old man's memories of
> > hearing an old man share his memories to a child/grandson. Yet the signet
> > ring seems to yield credibility. This level of detachment from the actual
> > event reinforces Pynchon's paranoid, conspiratorial world.
> >
> > In solidarity,
> > James
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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