S/b discussions NOT dissuasions, spell check error, I swear.
Pynchon makes use of Rilke's Duino Eligies and The Sonnets
to Orpheus and other Rilke stuff too, but I think the tenth
elegy will be most helpful at this point in grgr.
Pynchon's source:
Rilke, Ranier Maria, Duino Elegies, translated by C.F.
MacIntyre,
University of California Press, 1961
TF