Politics and History

[Don.Lloyd]

Re Lindsay's latest post:

Ah, I'm sorry.  I took your original post more as an outright
characterization of P than as a comparative.  Thanks for clarifying.

Yes, I do think Slothrop is an apolitical figure.  In some
sense I guess I read into P (the writer, not the narrator)
that he too would like to be apolitical and bemoans the fact
that overtly political people like Weissman and Them screw
up the world by constantly defining it in terms of boundaries
(many of them transcendent).  Perhaps this is why I read
Slothrop's disappearance in the novel as an erasure of the
boundaries which might separate any one destiny from another.
By being scattered he is able to encompass all possible destinies.

Don Lloyd