Comments on Comments:GRGR

[Craig Clark]

Don Larsson writes:
> so, if this is Pirate's particular dream, why is he evoking a phrase from a heretical
> Massachusetts Puritan?

Perhaps Pirate is here experiencing the paranoid fantasies of the 
reader. What we are getting progressively entagled in is the text 
itself...

> Weisenburger's Companion to GR helpfully explicates.  To summarize, Novi
> Pazar was a small principality that was a source of contention between
> Austria-Hungary and Turkey that was a factor in dealings with Serbia.
> Another part of the Great Game, and at least tangentially related to
> the carryings-on of Porpentine and co. in "Under the Rose" and V.

You mean Novi Pazar was real?????
> It's interesting, though,
> that the horror-movie organ is more evocative of 1950s SF (I use the term 
> loosely) films that of movies that went before.  Think of Woody Allen's
> rampaging Breast in EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX . 

Allen's monster mammary is of course intended to parody every bad SF 
movie about Big Critters beating up in the Big City. The archetype is 
of course _King Kong_, and TRP is almost certainly looking ahead here 
to the endless Godzilla movies that followed after the bombing of 
Hiroshima (and don't forget that T-shirt, foax!) But I think he's no 
more trying to evoke 1950s movies than Allen was - both are parodies 
of _KK_.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"