Pyramids and Power

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Chris wonders:
"Andrew asked:     
 
     >4)  Who are the curious gods' offspring to whom the `provisional
         pyramids' (p 17) have been erected?
 
     Don answered:
 
     >  The inhabitants of ACHTUNG, apparently, who parody the Pharohs--
     >  those gods' offspring who built the permanent structures.
 
     Don't unnerstan' this, gents.  'Splain, please."

My take, such as it is, is that the provisional pyramids are of sandbags
surrounding the entrance to ACHTUNG, where Slothrop is working before
he gets shipped off to Pointsman.  I think Pynchon is making ironic comparison
with those Egyptian pyramids, which were to be the tombs for the living
gods that the  Pharohs passed as.


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)