GRGR(3) Pointsman

[Richard Romeo]

>Following up on Rich's comment about what a creepy guy Pointsman is -- I
>wonder what comment TRP makes about scientists in general, behaviorists in
>particular, by giving us a first view of Pointsman with his foot stuck in a
>toilet, then exposes him as a child molester? ("A thousand children are
>shuffling out these doors tonight, but only rare nights will even one come
>in, home to your sprung, spermy bed" p. 51), then reveals his lust for
>experimentation on human subjects.
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Yup, Edward is someone I wouldn't want to be stuck in a locked hotel room 
with, with only the occasional roach to keep his stare off my skull, but 
there are instances where Pointsman's paranoia, if you will, is 
well-founded, namely in his obsession w/ Slothrop and what his "gift" 
represents.  To use a phrase Dwight Eddins in the Gnostic Pynchon uses, 
Slothrop could represent the apeironic-wing of gnosticism, that strain of 
anti-paranoia, existentialism, where nothing is connected nothing.  So it 
seems even those wittingly or not working for them are faced with the same 
human sadness: cf: Blicero's view of the War--to somewhat quote Mr Petty:  
"even the creepy get lucky sometimes".  In these moments, both Pointsman and 
Weissman are encamped with the preeterite.

Rich




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