GRGR(6) - Ep. 15

[rj]

Gary:
> There's a passage I'm looking for about how information is restricted
> precisely from those who like Slothrop had the greatest interest in
> finding it, throwing them (us?) back onto dreams, fantasies,
> drug-induced visions, u.s.w. Anyone have a page no.?
> 

"( .... Those like Slothrop, with the greatest interest in discovering
the truth, were thrown back on dreams, psychic flashes, omens,
cryptographies, drug-epistemologies, all dancing on a ground of terror,
contradiction, uncertainty.)" p. 582

I agree fully that the indeterminacy throughout the novel is a
deliberate ploy. What intrigues and concerns me is that, once the reader
acknowledges and accepts the illusory nature of historical 'truth' as
represented by and in the narrative we are still disinclined to dispense
with our instinctive moral compasses towards characters and events (both
fictional and historical). There are a number of possible versions of
both Slothrop's and Katje's activities in these sequences which suggest
that they are either aware of, or are complicit in, the systems of death
which they personally enhance.

What of *moral* indeterminacy in the novel?

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