The Crying of Lot 49, the Group Read of 2024

[David Morris]

BTW, this kind of convoluted sentence (which Pynchon seems to be perfecting
for heavy GR use) always makes sense, never looses its object/subject,
doesn’t morph without tangible tethers. Someone A long time ago told me
that one should not parse Pynchon. I completely disagree.


On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 11:04 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> So:
>
> 1. The “WHAT” which precedes (ushered in, causes?) “that which remained”
> (buffered sensation/experience), is Oed’s realization that she has been
> caught *irretrievably* by a malignant force of Magic.
>
> 2. Her intuition told her that if she let down her hair, she would be
> rescued. But the malignant force transformed her hair into an artificial
> lie. Powerless hair. Oed has no defense against that magic.
>
> 3.  Oed sought escape, was DEMONSTRABLY 👿 thwarted. And is sent/embarks
> on a journey whose *environment*, *that which remains*, is a kind of limbo,
> disassociation, shock.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 9:58 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> “she was to have all manner of revelations [..] about what had remained
>> yet had somehow before this, stayed away.”
>>
>> “What had remained” after WHAT? Before WHAT?
>>
>> What REMAINED is something that had “stayed away” before. Something had
>> (for some reason) avoided her before: “ The sense of buffering,
>> insulation.” Something brought this new guest to her door, and it was
>> staying now.  It feels like a description of dissociation, being “there,”
>> but not there, like an audience or witness. This is a reaction akin to
>> shock, and is usually a built-in protection against extreme trauma.
>>
>