GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Andignac, David]

> >From: Doug Millison
> >
> >At 7:22 AM +1100 12/14/99, rj wrote:
> > >"The boy wants to fuck ... " (100.5-6)
> >
> >Which is the claim of innocence that every child molester makes. Of
> course
> >Blicero will defend his crime in this manner.
> >
> 
> Such a reading is possible, but it takes the blinders of the Moral
> Majority 
> to make it stick.
> 
> DM
> 
	Look where the War has taken us. Now molestation and pedophilia are
no longer evil in themselves. 

	Does Pointsman think he is evil? Does Blicero? Did Hitler? This is
the danger that IMHO, Pynchon points out through much of the novel. When we
start to believe that there is no inherent good or evil, only relative grey
areas, we can justify anything. 

	I feel that he attempts to trap us in many cases, by tempting us to
buy into these justifications so that we have to question our own moral
center.  

	It is the same question that William S. Burroughs presents to us so
often, "Wouldn't you?"

	David A.
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