I’ve decided to read Against the Day as a multi-dimensional inter-narrative of coinciding realities in differentiated time and space. There are simply too many references to the Big Bang, to altered states of consciousness, alternate realities, to versions of history that could have been, to the inaccuracies, refractions, distortions, and bias introdcced by instruments of […]
I have completed the second book, Icelandic Spar, which begins and ends with the COC. In between there is a relentless search by a parade of searchers. Some of these are already known to us, chiefly the vengeful search for Sloat and Deuce, and some are new. It is possible that the readers of […]
pgs 240 …
Ah Phosgene, a pleasant thing to research on a beautiful Christmas morn”
to wit:Phosgene was synthesized by the chemist John Davy (1790-1868) in
1812 using sunlight on a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine. He named
it in reference to use of light to promote the reaction; from Greek, phos
(light) and gene (born). It gradually became […]
Hot Air Balloon
A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost.
He reduced altitude to try to figure out where he was when he
spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse
me, can you help me? I appear to be a little off course. I promised a
friend I would […]
There has been enough on Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon, to indicate the extreme likelihood that his latest work can be read in more ways than one. There is a debate, if a Wiki entry may be called a debate, a monolog, or hypothesis, or heck, a wiki entry, concerning the shadows dropped behind […]
“Structures are defined by that which escapes them…” V2, hyperbolic narrative arc traced across the sky, its silent and unannounced arrival among the humble homes of wartime wine-jelly-feasting Londoners known only by the anticipation manifest by Slothrop prescient anatomy… An arc drawn out by Brenschluss, motivation on the launch pad is matched by motivation at […]
Pages 180 to 200
so now into one of the parts where the writing style has turned into “the western revenge cluster” as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_day
and our friend Lew has been lured over to the other side (saw that coming) and Web Traverse is getting high from P.E.T.N, an ingredient in plastic explosives, the substance comprising the […]
Simple concept pump (in case you thought TP devices were obscure) a Google search for “talking dogs” returns 155,ooo results…
-Miles
I would gladly wager that a credible Master’s thesis can be written about Aeronautical Openings, beyond the master’s own achievements in GR and ATD, we have recent contributions by McEwan (the facsimilie of TP’s typed defense in the NYT t’other day is now on my fridge), in Atonement and Saturday. Adrian Chan and I were […]
I’ve now reached page 49… intrigued that Lindsay Noseworth lacks the “olfactory notes” of other humans (pun on his name? inordinate cleanliness? hint of extraterrestrialism?), and by the “rising tide of World Anarchy” (”global threat” of the era) as a pretext to stifle/further certain agendae…
I like the Chums’ insistence on formality–or rather, exactitude–in speech. […]