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> pynchon-l-digest Monday, August 11 2003 Volume 02 : Number
3479
>
>
>
> Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Versipellis
> Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Fountains And Ugly Children
> Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Nail Scissors
> RE: [NPPF] Canto Three: Hue's Sloppy?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:06:15 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Versipellis
>
> My Adam's apple is a prickly pear:
> Now I shall speak of evil and despair
> As none has spoken. Five, six, seven, eight,
> Nine strokes are not enough. Ten. I palpate
> Through strawberry-and-cream the gory mess
> And find unchanged that patch of prickliness.
>
> Having a bit of trouble eliminating that fur there Mr. Shadow?
>
> "We shall be assisted in this explanation by turning aside for a moment to
> examine the wild superstitions about "changelings," which contributed,
along
> with so many others, to make the lives of our ancestors anxious and
> miserable. These superstitions were for the most part attempts to explain
> the phenomena of insanity, epilepsy, and other obscure nervous diseases. A
> man who has hitherto enjoyed perfect health, and whose actions have been
> consistent and rational, suddenly loses all self-control and seems
actuated
> by a will foreign to himself. Modern science possesses the key to this
> phenomenon; but in former times it was explicable only on the hypothesis
> that a demon had entered the body of the lunatic, or else that the fairies
> had stolen the real man and substituted for him a diabolical phantom
exactly
> like him in stature and features."
>
> --John Fiske
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:13:50 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Fountains And Ugly Children
>
> In the story of Melusina the cloud-maiden appears as a kind of mermaid,
but
> in other respects the legend resembles that of Urvasi. Raymond, Count de
la
> ForЙt, of Poitou, having by an accident killed his patron and benefactor
> during a hunting excursion, fled in terror and despair into the deep
> recesses of the forest. All the afternoon and evening he wandered through
> the thick dark woods, until at midnight he came upon a strange scene. All
at
> once "the boughs of the trees became less interlaced, and the trunks
fewer;
> next moment his horse, crashing through the shrubs, brought him out on a
> pleasant glade, white with rime, and illumined by the new moon; in the
midst
> bubbled up a limpid fountain, and flowed away over a pebbly floor with a
> soothing murmur. Near the fountain-head sat three maidens in glimmering
> white dresses, with long waving golden hair, and faces of inexpressible
> beauty." [Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, II. 207.] One of them advanced to
> meet Raymond, and of course they were betrothed before daybreak. In due
time
> the fountain-nymph became Countess de la ForЙt, but her husband was given
to
> understand that all her Saturdays would be passed in strictest seclusion,
> upon which he must never dare to intrude, under penalty of losing her
> forever. For many years all went well, save that the fair Melusina's
> children were, without exception, misshapen or disfigured.
>
> --John Fiske
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:35:38 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Nail Scissors
>
> "So far as I can follow you, then, Mr. Holmes," said Sir Henry
Baskerville,
> "someone cut out this message with a scissors --"
>
> "Nail-scissors," said Holmes. "You can see that it was a very short-bladed
> scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away.' "
>
> "That is so. Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of
short-bladed
> scissors, pasted it with paste --"
>
> "Gum," said Holmes.
>
> "With gum on to the paper. But I want to know why the word 'moor' should
> have been written?"
>
> "Because he could not find it in print. The other words were all simple
and
> might be found in any issue, but 'moor' would be less common."
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:55:43 -0700
> From: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [NPPF] Canto Three: Hue's Sloppy?
>
> >>>backward and upsidedown--trophies of the eaves. <<<
>
> I'm attuned to backwards and upsidedown.
> But how do eaves fit in?
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
> ------------------------------
>
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Subject: pynchon-l-digest V2 #3479
>
> pynchon-l-digest Monday, August 11 2003 Volume 02 : Number
3479
>
>
>
> Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Versipellis
> Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Fountains And Ugly Children
> Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Nail Scissors
> RE: [NPPF] Canto Three: Hue's Sloppy?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:06:15 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Versipellis
>
> My Adam's apple is a prickly pear:
> Now I shall speak of evil and despair
> As none has spoken. Five, six, seven, eight,
> Nine strokes are not enough. Ten. I palpate
> Through strawberry-and-cream the gory mess
> And find unchanged that patch of prickliness.
>
> Having a bit of trouble eliminating that fur there Mr. Shadow?
>
> "We shall be assisted in this explanation by turning aside for a moment to
> examine the wild superstitions about "changelings," which contributed,
along
> with so many others, to make the lives of our ancestors anxious and
> miserable. These superstitions were for the most part attempts to explain
> the phenomena of insanity, epilepsy, and other obscure nervous diseases. A
> man who has hitherto enjoyed perfect health, and whose actions have been
> consistent and rational, suddenly loses all self-control and seems
actuated
> by a will foreign to himself. Modern science possesses the key to this
> phenomenon; but in former times it was explicable only on the hypothesis
> that a demon had entered the body of the lunatic, or else that the fairies
> had stolen the real man and substituted for him a diabolical phantom
exactly
> like him in stature and features."
>
> --John Fiske
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:13:50 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Fountains And Ugly Children
>
> In the story of Melusina the cloud-maiden appears as a kind of mermaid,
but
> in other respects the legend resembles that of Urvasi. Raymond, Count de
la
> ForЙt, of Poitou, having by an accident killed his patron and benefactor
> during a hunting excursion, fled in terror and despair into the deep
> recesses of the forest. All the afternoon and evening he wandered through
> the thick dark woods, until at midnight he came upon a strange scene. All
at
> once "the boughs of the trees became less interlaced, and the trunks
fewer;
> next moment his horse, crashing through the shrubs, brought him out on a
> pleasant glade, white with rime, and illumined by the new moon; in the
midst
> bubbled up a limpid fountain, and flowed away over a pebbly floor with a
> soothing murmur. Near the fountain-head sat three maidens in glimmering
> white dresses, with long waving golden hair, and faces of inexpressible
> beauty." [Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, II. 207.] One of them advanced to
> meet Raymond, and of course they were betrothed before daybreak. In due
time
> the fountain-nymph became Countess de la ForЙt, but her husband was given
to
> understand that all her Saturdays would be passed in strictest seclusion,
> upon which he must never dare to intrude, under penalty of losing her
> forever. For many years all went well, save that the fair Melusina's
> children were, without exception, misshapen or disfigured.
>
> --John Fiske
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:35:38 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: [NPPF] Canto Four: Nail Scissors
>
> "So far as I can follow you, then, Mr. Holmes," said Sir Henry
Baskerville,
> "someone cut out this message with a scissors --"
>
> "Nail-scissors," said Holmes. "You can see that it was a very short-bladed
> scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away.' "
>
> "That is so. Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of
short-bladed
> scissors, pasted it with paste --"
>
> "Gum," said Holmes.
>
> "With gum on to the paper. But I want to know why the word 'moor' should
> have been written?"
>
> "Because he could not find it in print. The other words were all simple
and
> might be found in any issue, but 'moor' would be less common."
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:55:43 -0700
> From: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [NPPF] Canto Three: Hue's Sloppy?
>
> >>>backward and upsidedown--trophies of the eaves. <<<
>
> I'm attuned to backwards and upsidedown.
> But how do eaves fit in?
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of pynchon-l-digest V2 #3479
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