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

[rj]

TF
> > > In any
> > > event, Pointy says, "It all comes down, as it must, to the
> > > desires of individual MEN (my caps)....It's work, that all
> > > it is, and there's no room for any extra human
> > > anxieties--they only weaken, effeminize the will: a man
> > > either indulges them, or fights to win, und so weiter."
> > >
> > > "und so weiter" allies Pointy with Blicero.


rj
> > Because it's a German phrase? Pointy doesn't know Blicero at all. The
> > tag is just the man's bitter irony, isn't it?
> >

TF 
> What man's bitter irony?

Pointsman's, obviously. I assumed, by the fact that you wrote "Pointy
says", that the narrative at this point is under sway of Pointsman's
consciousness. I couldn't locate the page to check this of course,
because you neglected to provide a page ref.

And how come we can turn to this character and not another for genuine
insight into what's what in the text (and in the world)? Why is Pointy's
presentiment deserving of your CAPS, while "the
reader must distance himself[sic] from Slothrop to make any sense
of the novel."

These are dark and disturbing issues, my friend.

best


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