Blicero

[Richard Romeo]

t sed:>
>.... He is in Romantic
>love with  death and extinction and in the novel he convenes
>a sadistic routine against the War, in the end he seeks the
>perverse solace of a "Deathkingdom," because his utter
>contempt for Life is so powerful--like Milton's Satan when
>he beholds Adam and Eve in Paradise--that he can only regard
>life as "this cycle of infection (powerful theme in V.) and
>Death," He wants literally to be "taken in love," but his
>idea of Love is a mockery and a Reversal of what that term
>means in the novel, and I think what that term, might
>credibly imply. Blicero desires the Finality of Death, a
>perverse solipsistic apocalypse. He is "the Zones worst
>spectre." He is described by Polker as "diabolical." He is
>the ultimate bureaucrat and the bureaucracy is death
>institutionalized.
>
>more to come
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what I don't get based on this argument of checking out of this cycle is why 
does he send Gottfried up in the Rocket instead of himself--what, the 
mystic's too chubby for cosmic enlightenment.
And what about the claims of finding good ole Blic in the boardrooms of the 
present--he's a survivor, hooked on the experiences of, say Gottfried during 
that final flight of 00000--Interesting parallel with all the other themes 
regarding fetishization. He gets a thrill over death, but someone else's 
looks like to me.
Not that he isn't one of the most interesting literary characters.
Rich
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