{"id":496,"date":"2007-03-06T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/06\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-6\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:38:20","slug":"the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/06\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until two days ago I was 70 pages behind, but a pair of flights got me (finally) caught back up. If you’re one of the many good folks stuck a bit back on the trail, let me just tell ya, all you need is a stop over in Houston (real or metaphorical) and you’ll be right back in the game.
\nIn general, I’m finding AtD<\/i>‘s kind of like Chutes and Ladders<\/i>. Sometimes I move slowly. Sometimes I’m zipping on ahead. Occasionally I’m fumbling backwards, trying to figure out just what it was that I must have missed somewhere, somewhere….
\nThis week I used a way-back chute to revisit the attempted hustle in Chapter 3. “At times there were too many cards to count, at others none at all were visible, seeming to have vanished into some dimension well beyond the third, though this could have been a trick of what light there was.” (23) That seems a fair description of the way Pynchon uses throwaway characters — a blurred sleight of hand designed to force us into keeping our our eyes open a little wider than usual.
\nOne of the kicks of the book, I think, is that every once in a rare while all this frenzy leaves us with that Blundellian feeling that we can sense “how everything fits together, connects.” Sure, as with Miles, it doesn’t always last long. And more often than not, we end up “just back to tripping over [our] feet again.” (24) But that’s OK. I’m happy to stick around to see if some T.W.I.T. is going to pass around another batch of brain explosives.
\nHope you all stick around too. While I’m required by law to love all the ‘marches just the same, I’ll confess between us that the commentary this go-around has been particularly swell.
\nSpeaking of which, the mighty, the mighty, the mighty Steve Evans has come through with another invaluable batch of madeleines<\/b><\/a> — the perfect way to flash the previous week’s reading into your lizard brain before ambling back onto the trail. And speaking of that<\/i>…
\nTuesday 3\/13:<\/b> Let’s meet at the bottom of page 335 and the glory of a “mean, nervous, scheming servitude to an enfeebled conscience.”
\n(which is to say: please use this thread to comment on anything up to page 335. Aim to get near that target and add a comment by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\nPugnax!
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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