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

[jporter]

>jporter writes:
>>Not for me. But maybe that's because I was standing on the margins the
>>first time I picked it up. Fell right into the flow. The dislocations come
>>when one tries to fit the riffs into some preconceived critical framework,
>>and reads with one eye and ear on what the critics are saying and the other
>>on the text itself. That's like looking at Bloat's picture of Slothrop's
>>map, instead of the map itself: black and white v. color.
>>You come to the text too prepared with other peoples interpretations. I'm
>>sure glad I've never read Weisenberger, although I might get a kick out of
>>it now, after a million slug fests on the P-list. Listen to the
>>narrator...psst, you can trust him, its pynchon, and he's talking to you...
>
>In brief:
>
>Bravo!

>
>Josh


Yo, Josh, thanks for the cheer!

In the same vain, it has always struck me as ironic, and I know someone
else said this way back, that here we are, thrashing eachother over the
relative or absolute evility of a Pointsman, say, using technology entirely
dependent on the work of a Real Person, who, not only, road roughshod over
his scientific colleagues, actually did win the prize and basically founded
silicon valley, but also, in emeritus mode, went on to spew out some of the
more virulent racism of the post-war era.

Thinking about it kind of takes some of the wind out my sails when I'm
getting ready to sermonize from the keyboard, if not the mount.

Beside which, just as I'm getting ready to deliver the moral equivalent of
a knockout blow, I can't help recalling the querie, one macaroni to
another, in M&D, regarding the merits of fighting with, let alone over, one
of pynchon's characters:

"Derek? you're talking to a D-O-G?"

And I remember that I have a whole bunch of chores to do.

jody