GRGR Continues

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

David schrieb:

> I think there are parallels/mirrors going on with the four "Sons":  
> Slothrop, Enzian, Tchitcherine, and Gottfried.  I don't think linking their 
> Mothers will be productive, except in the general sense of "Motherhood."  
> The Fathers can be more directly compared as agents of the War:

  On that father/son thing there is an oldie but goodie which discusses the   
  issue in Hillman's (- Hi Keith!) terms of "senex & puer":

  Klaus Poenicke: Senex, Puer, Pikaro und Pynchons Enden der Parabel. P. 228-254 
  in: Heinz Ickstadt (ed.): Ordnung und Entropie. Zum Romanwerk von Thomas   
  Pynchon. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981: Rowohlt. 

  I fear there's no translation, so I'll give you two more of my notorious 
  amateur translations (- quick ones, I hear my daughter's already waking up 
  from her afternoon sleep ...):

  "Exaggerating order addiction [- "Ordnungssucht"] is narrowing itself not only 
  into control, but is also opening itself, according to the law of entropy,   
  through self closing [-"Selbstabdichtung"] to anomy. Exaggerating call for 
  freedom [-"Freiheitsanspruch"], the other way round, is diffusing not only 
  into chaos and anomy, but is also narrowing itself, in its own radicalism, 
  into totalitarian control" (p. 245). -  Terrance still calls this 
  "dialectical".

  [- SPOILER to come!]

  "That those in power do not allow this new ambivalent attitude towards the 
  more open world of Pan, will be revenged in the end of Pynchon's novel. The 
  irritated director of the 'Orpheus theatre' in Los Angeles is surrounded by 
  the howling of uncountable 'forbidden' kazoos, before the rocket reaches the 
  place of his senex stagings and blows the elected and the damned, 
  establishment and counter-culture, into the apocalypse" (p. 252).  

  KFL ///::: PS: Pynchon's view on mothers can be called "very critical", no?