MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12)

[John Atchison]

Could they not be the same beings.... called to bear witness, not to
intervene. Sent to observe and to report...their motives, measures and
minds as foreign to the observed as the cries of the sublime infant are
foreign the insects inhabiting the hay of his manger.
      blicero 
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> From: Vaska <vaska at geocities.com>
> To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12)
> Date: Sunday, July 20, 1997 4:44 PM
> 
> Doug Millison writes:
> 
> >Chapter 11
> >108.9-12 "...behold a Company of Giant rob'd Beings, [SNIP] 
> >
> >Any suggestions about who or what these Beings represent? They remind me
> >somehow of the beings (are they angels? I don't remember exactly where
this
> >is in GR) in GR. Here, in M&D, the characterizations "blind and
> >remorseless" and "matters forever unexplain'd" make them seem sinister.
> 
> Maybe it's just because I'm largely ignorant of Chinese mythology, and of
> the story Doug goes on to mention in his post, but yes, these sinister
> "Giant rob'd Beings" do remind me of the Rilkean angels in _GR_: Rilke's
> angels were also pitiless and destructive.  
> 
> Vaska
> 
>