More MM

[Henry Musikar]

Nice one, Andrew, but who takes MM's place, what is ensured here? I 
think that the positive outcome here is that afterword, They appear 
to have lost interest in Slothop. The sacrifice of MM's marbles 
appears to be sufficient to appease them.

On  7 Aug 96 at 11:16, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> From:          andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn)
> Subject:       Re: Tangent:  Cause and effect
> To:            padgett at intellicorp.com
> Date:          Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:16:25 +0100 (BST)
> Cc:            pynchon-l at waste.org

> Penny Padgett writes:
> 
> > The recent musings on the righteousness of Major Marvy's fate
> > reminded me of a passage in _GR_ ...
> 
> By the way, while we are still tangentially connected to the MM
> thread...
> 
> Irrespective of the justice of Marvy's castration nobody mentioned
> anything about it's significance. It seems fairly clear to me that
> TRP inlcuded various old myths in GR and the castration of MM places
> him in the middle of the ritual sacrifice as a surrogate for the
> king (Slothrop) who was traditionally allowed to have his way with
> the priestesses then castrated before being killed. Which, of
> course, makes the psychiatrists who invoke the act both the priests
> of the sun god Apollo (the sacrifice was to ensure the sun's return)
> cum priestesses of the sow-goddess (hence the pig costume) of the
> Goddess or, alternatively, the Maenads who tore Orpheus to pieces
> (perhaps I should say disassembled him).
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
> -----------
> And though Earthliness forget you,
> To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
> To the rushing water speak:  I am.
> 
> 

Keep cool, but care. -- TRP