GRGR(16) - Galina/Geli

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
>
>A double, the narrator said we would have doubles and
>ancestors. Geli is an ancestor, Amy right? Is Galina an
>ancestor? Geli has "inborn strength" and a magic that seems
>beyond words and language, while Galina is shut in by words.
>In fact, she is a letter, a scarlet letter perhaps, in T
>view.

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(281.28) Signs will find him here in the Zone [Is this the first use of this 
term in GE?], and ancestors will reassert themselves.  It's like going to 
that Darkest Africa to study the natives there, and finding their quaint 
superstitions taking you over. [...]
  Signs of Katje, and doubles too. [...]
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Next follows Slothrop's encounter with the little-girl ghost, summoned by 
the burning of dolls (but actually a Russian Jewess's) hair.  The scence is 
complete w/ a mechanical King Kong.  Slothrop thinks she's really "Katje, 
the lovely little Queen of Transylvania."

Katje, like V, is the Queen of Doubles.  But there are so many others.  
Slothrop might even be a quadrupal.  Geli/Galina are also, but their 
function in the text is what's unclear to me.  For Pynchon to have so 
blatantly laid out these pairs of women w/ birds _should_ have a meaning of 
function.

As for ancestors,  for me this is a reversion to a state of numinous 
existence, where rational thought is not master.  Underlying meaning takes 
over.  You, the rational one, are not in control.

no concluions,
David Morris



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