GRGR(7) - Pointy's Obsession

[Richard Romeo]

>Rich,
>Could you elaborate on your comments above:
>
>1. How is Pointy's fear of a free Slothrop "real" (meaning "valid?")?
>It seems to me that Slothrop is a Rorschach Blot, drawing out everyone's
>fears/hopes, which may or may not be "real."
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what if Slothrop draws the rockets down somehow?  If so, this man should be 
charged for roaming.

>
>2. How does Slothrop exemplify "a world gone mad?"  He's not unscathed;
>something "very bad" happened to him in the past, but is he "mad?"  Or
>is he really a "monster," which may be your meaning, i.e.. the bad
>result of "the War's" tinkering.  That's possible, but the cout's still
>out, i'd say.  Pointy, I think, is clearly "mad," at least this
>diagnosis is hard-written into the text, IMHO.
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Pointsman (Dr Frankenstein)is quite gruesome, and if Slothrop is a monster, 
he's no less a monster than Frankenstein, in that he was the result of 
science gone mad, thus garnering our sympathy and applauding his attempts to 
find out the clue that is himself. Pointsman is pathetic, like Mason is 
pathetic, trying to join that in-crowd, of course, Mason being alot more 
sympathetic and deserving of such.

When Pynchon muses that maybe the disease of control is outside now, that 
we've broken the natural bonds of nature, that we've constructed weapons of 
such destruction as to reverse cause and effect, like Slothrop's erections 
and the rocket blast, well, think of living in such a world.  nothing 
connecting to nothing is how we'd perceive it.  the abyss.

Rich



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