GRGR 11, Roger the Fool

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Thu Feb 20 17:38:13 CST 1997


Coming at the end of "Beyond the Zero" as it does, Roger's "Oh, Jess.
Jessica. Don't leave me...." take on the significance that the final,
ringing chord of the first movement of any symphony does, or the
signifying words spoken, half to the audience, at the end of the first
act of a play. The end of the beginning, it is also the beginning of
an end. (Any thoughts on when GR brenschluss occurs?)

If Roger is an anti-Pointsman, isn't he also an anti-Slothrop. 
Slothrop has his "many points of light" (G. Bush), and Roger his one;
Slothrop loves'em and leaves'em, while Roger has a ways to go before
he learns to (looking ahead here) "love the people?" Perhaps Roger is
the more "pathetic" of the two, eh? 

A-and how about the name Roger? No not Mr. Rogers, but how about Carl
Rogers vs Freud/Pavlov? A-and how about RM? Another RM is the most
famous of lovers, loving, marrying, and dying for a girl who loves him
but is betrothed (by them) to another. What pathetic (sad), "romantic"
fools. And yet...

AsB4

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