GRGR(16) non-verbal spaces

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Yes, yes, oh the language, the politics of language, and
lets not forget that Kurt came in with the wind from V. to
GR. 


remember Pynchon's great short story in the novel
V.--Mondaugen's Story? Mondaugen goes into "mirror-time" and
guess what's there? Nostalgia for the genocide of 1904. In
the mirror, in the vouyeur's dreams (vouyeur's dreams are
not their own) Weissman visits him during sickness and
declares that he has interpreted the sferics, "Die Welt ist
Alles Was der Fall ist" the facts, the amoral facts of the
Seige Party--a wild Fasching, with murder and sadism. 
Facts, quality is besides the point, moral judgments are not
part of the case, events are random, they simply occur, and
their meaning exists only in their facts, in their actual
occurrence. No ethics, no meaning.  In this world, Benny is
a mock Prometheus, a mock Job, he can't deal with people or
things, he has trouble figuring the people from the things,
so he pisses on the sun, ha, ha. Black humor, apocalyptic
humor. Remember in the Luddite essay Pynchon defends certain
"genres" and certain novels, he is really defending his own
books, are they simply "escapist fare"?




Peter Petto wrote:
> 
> rj wrote:
> 
> >Galina's dream (340-341) succinctly symbolises the whole cultural
> >carpetbagging theme I think. She has noticed too that it is the
> >non-verbal spaces of tribal communication in which resistance to the
> >program of linguistic imperialism is being wrought (like Dzaqyp Qulan's
> >silences also, which speak worlds to Tchitcherine, and like the lesson
> >of the ajyts later, and like that cheesy pidgin of Tchitchy's mom and
> >dad).
> 
> The importance of silence brings to mind Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus
> Logico-philosophicus, where after explaining what can be said goes on to
> say that the important stuff is the unsayable remainder.
> 
> I remember the explicit reference to LW in V, Kurt Mondaugen's decoded
> sferic. Are there other clear references of this sort in GR?