An Unlikely Sage

[Frate, Chris (Indust, PTL)]

What the hell? It would be nice to get an explanation for why the site
came down.

-CiC 

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From: thewho-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:thewho-bounces at igtc.com] On Behalf
Of Martin Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:03 PM
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Subject: An Unlikely Sage 

Here's diary entry from Pete which I managed to copy before his site
went down.

-MB

 28 January 2007
An Unlikely Sage


I read a lot. The new book by Thomas Pynchon (he of 'V' and 'Gravity's
Rainbow') is 'Against The Day'. It has been reviewed as a very thick
book, it has over one thousand pages. Yet as soon as I began to read I
knew I was happily hooked for the entire journey. It reads like a boy's
adventure novel from the fifties, with touches of Kavalier and Clay
(Michael Chabon) and Tanglewreck (Jeanette Winterson). Last night,
suddenly out of a tumbling spill of images, emerged a paragraph of a
single sentence that seems to me of the most extraordinary wisdom and
insight. Merle is a single father waiting for the return of Erlys, his
baby daughter Dahlia's errant mother.


Merle waited in East Fullmoon as long as he could, waited for mail, a
telegram, a rider, a carrier pigeon circling in from the winter skies,
and in the meantime learned how straightforward it would all be, taking
care of this baby here, long as he didn't fret about the time or any
need he might've thought he had to get on with some larger plan-with
Erlys gone, anything like that was out the window and down the turnpike
anyway-and that long as he just kept breathing smoothly in and out, just
staying within the contours of the chore of the moment, life with young
Dahlia would provide precious little occasion for complaint, bitter or
otherwise.


Almost Bhuddist.

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