Wyatt's Departure

[RICHARD ROMEO]

This is a deranged idea and has nothing to do with pynchon but here goes 
(I promise not to bring up Gaddis again)-the end of the Recognitions "the 
irish-thorn writer" meets "Stephen" alias Wyatt (why it?) and thru him 
has some sense of religious experience (imagined or otherwise) while 
Wyatt leaves muttering something about simplify.  Gaddis says he never 
read Ulysses but I couldn't help but think as this Stephen was preaching 
to the irish-thorn writer about simplify, that the irish-thorn writer was 
Joyce.  There are many inconsistencies in this line of thought, but damn, 
I couldn't remove it while reading.  The irish-thorn writer is last seen 
chasing a bird (some sort of holy spirit-I don't think it's a dove) 
between two paintings, a mirror in between tallying all the action-a 
mirror the writer does not glance at.  

P.S.  Why is power sexy?-could it be some repressed part of each of those 
so titillated that they secretally really want a Brock Vond or Blicero to 
wipe away or bring to fore that something within them which they feel by 
conscious revealing would lead to some self-knowledge they would rather 
do without? (not realizing so many other roads like mercy and such do 
exist and in some cases can be quite sexy?-I say compassion is sexy for 
its result sure beats mushroom cocks and silly words.) Or do we just work 
out this hornyness about our own deaths or sin ala Wyatt in working 
through it?  I personally do not find death, having seen it, sexy?  
Sounds like a lot of ignorance to me.  Words in a book are one thing, 
death in the street another.  Do you find, finally,  bullfights sexy too? 
 Sorry for all this-I'm a catholic after all.

rich
nyc