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

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> 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.

Sorry, GR. 228
> 
> 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."

I don't see how the two are related? 



> 
> These are dark and disturbing issues, my friend.
> 
> best
> 
> ~~~ 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book. ~~~
>                               Ralph Waldo Emerson


Dark and disturbing? My friend, these light and humorous
issues. No absolutes, remember your relativisms.

Have a nice vacation.

Terrance