Deaths/Voodoo

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Eric Cassidy writes:
"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...."

One note: In the midst of all the version of death-in-life in GR (another
Eliot "Hollow Men" connection), there is only *one* citation of the
zombie, as such, in reference to the film WHITE ZOMBIE.  I suspect the
reason is that, as we all know, whiteness is the color of death in GR and
the Zombie is a black Hatian allusion, but the film (1932) title maintains
the white-death connection.  (By the way, it's a very wierd movie, with
some disparate acting styles, including our friend Bela Lugosi, Geza
's countryman.)

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN