CoL49 Group Reading

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If you're into water and lakes for the unconscious, I was going to point
out that the I Ching 49 hexagram is the well.  But then I checked and the
well is 48, not 49.  Hexagram 49 is revolution.  "Chaos from order,"
according to the "interpretation" I randomly clicked on.

I have also gotten into my head that Metzger looks and acts just like
Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  I hope that doesn't
poison anyone else's well.

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

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> > On May 10, 2024, at 12:57 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > So Pierce is a kind of shape-shifter, like the Norse character Loki.
> > I know that Pynchon references the icy North in GR. But are there any
> Norse
> > mythology references in COL49, other than (maybe) Pierce as Loki?
>
>
> What comes to mind is the Icy unswimmable waters of Lago di Prieta,
> rhyming with icy waters navigated by the submarine Justine, rhyming with
> the cold lake where the flower of Faggian youth ended up in their battle
> with Tristero, by which Nicole was killed,,  and the strangely named
> Fangoso lagoon( strange because it is for scuba divers who would want
> clarity to explore the imported Spanish galleons, but Fangoso means muddy,
> murky.) Bones in the cold depths everywhere. And some question as to who
> knows where the bodies are buried which Oedipa is curious about but
> Metzger, Cohen and Driblet discourage.
>
>
> Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
> The lake in the valley is the unconscious, which lies, as it were,
> underneath consciousness, so that it is often referred to as the
> “subconscious,” usually with the pejorative connotation of an inferior
> consciousness.
> Water is the “valley spirit,” the water dragon of Tao, whose nature
> resembles water- a yang in the yin, therefore, water means spirit that has
> become unconscious.
> Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
> Paragraph 40
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