Gottfried

[David Andignac]

Greetings:

I am new to the list and am very glad to have found it. In the three years 
since I read Gravity's Rainbow, I have been unable to find anyone to really 
talk about it since noone I knew had read it. 

About Gottfried: 
His union with the rocket continued the theme of a sexual love with death 
which is seen throughout GR in various physical relationships (Brigadier 
Pudding comes to mind). Gottfried to me does not appear to be victim but 
volunteer - prepared through his lifetime with Blicero for this ultimate moment.

His descent finds its mark on the theater in which Pynchon places all of us 
readers. It seems that this sexual love as well as the tendency of man 
towards machine is leading to this destruction. 

We do not even seem to be involved in the process. We theatergoers are not 
aware of what's going on around us. What we care about is the show on the 
screen that has not started yet. Something to distract us as our fate is sealed.

Or maybe it means something completely different. Who am I to say?

David