GRGR(5) Katje: take two

[Michael Perez]

Terrance wrote:
"Katje is a professional. A professional solopsist. Sexual relations in
Pynchon are perverse acts by insane individuals, performing in the
theatre (the war).  They represent history."

Wha'?!  Being a solipsist must be a very unfulfilling profession, since
one would have to start from scratch with every "client" a-and you
would begin knowing full well that you could never completely
understand said "client."  As far as sexual relations in _GR_ being
"perverse acts by insane individuals," I belief they are opportunistic
and life-affirming acts by hopelessly frightened individuals very much
aware of their mortality.  As for their "performing in the theatre (the
war)," being in the theatre implies an audience and while there may be
some people watching, as we will see in GRGR (6), I think these folks
are unwitting performers, to say the least.  And, lastly, to the extent
that they represent history, I don't know what you could mean by this, 
There exists, of course, opportunities for all sorts of endeavors
scientific, technological, social, political, etc. to be historical in
the sense that there are breakthroughs in any or all of these, but
those engaging in sexual relations?  I'd have to ask you to 'splain
that one to me.

Michael

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