GRGR(4) Re: TS's session, X and a Spengler ?

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:

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> To clarify what seems a bit muddy as I re-read this, I don't at all
> disagree with what Max said about psychologists/psychiatrists in WWII in
> his fine post. I think TRP may be taking some of what anti-Establishment
> folks in the 60s had to say about psychologists/psychiatrists and moving it
> back into GR's WWII setting.
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>

Right! And in Pynchon's novels--all of them--there is war. He slides them in
and out of the 60s. And war is the cancer of control that destroys the
individual. One of Pynchon's major themes--certainly his biggest political
theme is the loss of identity and the loss of individual and human rights
during war--and the war is going on and on and on.

I told him to "keep cool" that he'd soon catch on to the happenings...Japanese
planes had just bombed Pearl Harbor...Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go
and bleed for him? Let him fight...Harlem was now officially off limits to
white servicemen...

--The Autobiography of Malcolm X

What about the music, the jazz, Tyrone's mouth harp? That moment at the back of
the bus in VL?

Why is this music so important? Can it stop war as some 60s folks claimed? Or
does it have far greater powers?

In one of Xenophanes' satirical poems, the soul of his friend is said to be
present in a whipped dog.

Terrance
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