GRGR(13) Notes (Pt 1)

[RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com]

David pleads:
> (I had written:)
>> 283.14 "was one Franz Pokler" - i hadn't noticed the parallels between 
>> Pokler and Slothrop's in previous reads (perhaps Franz is one of the
"doubles"
>> mentioned earlier....). so Pokler and Slothrop are attached here with 
>> Imipolex-G
>
> Please elaborate.  Pokler is a "father."  Slothrop a "son."  I don't think 
> they are "doubles."  Both may be victims of the War, but the father leads.

i was referring to something Doug Millison wrote last week:

>>> TRP expands on the little girl theme and otherwise parallels
>>> Slothrop's paranoid quest in Pokler's story when we get to the mid-point
>>> (Pokler with his little "daughters" at Zwolfkinder, Pokler's paranoia about
>>> how and why he gets to be where he gets to be precisely when he gets there
>>> echoing Slothrop's paranoia) of the novel.  

so *double* in the sense of being paranoid/little-girl-associated (perhaps i
should have thrown in a "(which Doug pointed out)" after "parallels" in my
note).... 

the father-son angle you point out is interesting in that it reminds me of the
pairing  of Steven Dedalus and Poldy Bloom (in _Ulysses_). 

--rwilson

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