Blicero

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> t and then c 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
> > ------------
> > 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.
> 
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> It is not death -- murder, suicide, extinction, genocide etc -- but
> transcendence which Blicero seeks through and for Gottfried: "a promise,
> a prophecy, of Escape." (758.5up) It is his gift and his sacrifice. No
> more Satanic or sadistic than the Christian myth, really.
> 
> Gottfried, right to the very end of the novel, "feels he must keep every
> word, that none must be lost. Blicero's words have become precious to
> him. He understands that Blicero wants to give, without expecting
> anything back, give away what he loves. He believes that he exists for
> Blicero ... " (721.6up)
> 
> 


No more satanic and sadistic than the christian myth? Are we
reading the same books? You have got it completely
backwards. Pynchon makes this clear as a bell, blicero's
religion is sadistic and satanic.  It's not Christianity
that is of real importance at this moment in the novel, but
herero and kabbalah. 

Isn't it captain blicero that dresses up in women's
clothing, with artificial genitalia? Artificial, not
positive symbolism in GR. Also, be subverting the natural
sexual instincts, necessary for life, with perverse sadistic
fantasy, in the service of death and the oven, blicero
hardly seems to offer transcendence, not to life anyway, as
christ does for christains.  Reading the new testament this
morning, I contend that the christian god man represents,
life with his father, the end of death, but what
transcendence does blicero have in mind?  Death to eternal
Death and Not eternal life. The rocket is also artificial,
another pornography, an imitation of both male and female
sexuality--it has both sex organs, and it is an imitation of
or a perversion of apocalypse. The moon is dead, right? In
the christian myth, see SJD's Revelations, the new world is
not the sterile, dead, empty, moon.