(Fwd) Re: Deaths in GR

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Eric Anderson

P.S.  Bianca dies.

Yes, Bianca dies, but what about Gottfried? After all, we are told 
"that the two children, Gottfried and Bianca, are the same...." (672) 
Perhaps we should read this as abstraction into the Freudian death 
drive/oedipal complex, but it seems to be an interesting if ambigous 
link....

Relagating GR to a dream state perhaps risks making everything 
metaphor, a relativistic illusion that defies coventional literary 
criticism (or realist lit crit) and its attempts for philosophically 
empirical meaning, yet it also reifies the role of molecular 
synthesis in the novel, what Deleuze would call desiring-production, 
and how certain productive processes construct the worlds within 
which we live....

A related side note: since the nether world does play a significant 
role in GR it would be interesting to compare and contrast the role 
of the occult or voodoo in both GR and, to latch on to recent 
discussions on the Pynchon-list, Gibson's version of cyberpunk. Far from 
being mere metaphor, the occult appears to play a singificant role in 
the Pynchon's "technologique," and outside the setting of Nazism, it 
seems to be a main player in both Pynchon's and Gibson's 
schizotechnics....