GRGR(16) non-verbal spaces

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Peter Petto wrote:
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> Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
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> >Peter Petto wrote:
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> > > I don't believe this to be a proper interpretation of Wittgenstein's
> > thought.
> >
> >This is not my interpretation Of Wittgenstein.
> 
> Then I missed/misunderstood the point you were making when you cited LW. I
> now understand that you were describing Weissman's misinterpretation of LW.
> (I'm gonna have to reread that section of V -- never one of my favorites --
> Mondaugen's fever always left me a bit dizzy.)

It's a great short story. Compare it to "The Secret
Integration." In both stories "dreams" are vouyeristc. In
both stories atmospheric disturbances, radio transmissions,
mix with dreams and note how the tribal music mixes in as
the jazz does in McAfee's detoxifying delirium. In 
Monduagen's case the delirium is in part due to the
scurvy--diseases carrying much weight in V., particularly
skin, also very important to GR. The voyeur's dreams are not
his own and at the  end of "TSI", after listening to
McAfee's delirious tales and having radio transmissions
mixed in their dreams, the boys innocence is lost and their
dreams will never be safe again. Pynchon reworks things over
and over, but although certain common threads persist, they
may serve different functions. For example, In all the books
prior to GR, Pynchon uses the atmosphere and elements of
Nature and so forth as symbols of sterility and
death--wasteland symbolism. In GR this changes. Why does
Mondaugen come into GR on the Wind? Does Pynchon associate
the wind with death in GR? He often associates the wind with
the rocket, but the wind also carries or it is hoped that
the wind will carry Pirate's bananas of life out to the
world, so we have to work it out. In M&D the wind is even
more complex.