GRGR(7) - Pointy's Obsession

[David Morris]

First Timers? Jill?
"SPOILER" is a warning of future plot developments about to be revealed
before the GRGR time.  DON'T READ the parts following "SPOILER" if you
want to keep a virgin read.

>>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.
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For fucking, anyway.  <<<SPOILER: That's obviously why they try that
nasty surgery later.>>>  But is this theory "real?"  Who knows.  It DOES
explain the root of Pointy's paranoia, explained so very well by Rich
below.

>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.
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O-or Everything connected to everything, in ways we've never before
conceived: Pure Paranoia.