Us and Them

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Kinda intrigued by the notion of "Them" as fluid-i.e. we each in our 
daily lives take up resistance against or unwittingly for, back and forth 
yo-yo like.



Thanks for Grim Phoenix info-maybe I can find gathering dust in some 
bookstore.



DFW featured in Sunday Times Magazine yesterday.  he was hospitalized it 
seems



On Pynchon's gay characters:  I can see the reason for Enzian and the 
Herero's with their death wish and homosexuality as a device plot to 
emphasize their subsumation and destruction by the Europeans but can 
anybody give adequate reasons why Blicero is necessarily a homosexual?  
I.e. what advantage to the book does GR receive by Weissman's sexuality.



And finally, if straight sex is another way of control by "Them", isn't 
gay sex controllable as well?  I mean Blicero is scared shit of the War 
too, right?  Slothrop by joining in on the Anubis I always thought was 
him joining 'them' albiet briefly-my point is one can read all this S & M 
nonsense in the desert or on the ship as just a bunch of perverts (them 
also)-seems a bit of a stretch to this good Christian boy here in NY.

I remember that line in Zentropa where the Werewolf lady tells Herr 
Kessler that he is the criminal for not taking sides and isn't the first 
people Dante meets in the Inferno are those who never made up their mind 
or choosed a side?  I guess what I'm saying is Us and Them are Us 
(sometimes)



PPS:  Saw the word 'whinge' used in Barnhardt's Gospel



Rich

NYC