GRGR Continues

[Clare Kennedy]

>From: Michael Perez <studiovheissu at yahoo.com>
>To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: GRGR Continues
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 05:29:08 -0800 (PST)
>
>Clare wrote:
>"What's going on with Slothrop in this discussion? Can we discuss him?"
>
>That kind of a plea can finally bring me out of lurk mode as I promised
>during the recent roll call.  Slothrop is slowly learning about his own
>past and the shocks of those revelations are perhaps postponing his
>realizing what his family has meant to the German rearmament that led
>to WW II.  "Shit, money, and the Word, the three American truths,
>powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for
>good to the country's fate." [28.8-10]  Now, he learns that his family
>not only helped the American evil empire, but that German one, too.  In
>addition to the spread of religious dogma (the Word).  Seems like that
>shit wiping use of the products of his family's paper industry may have
>been the only beneficial contribution his family has made to history.
>For the moment, though, all of that is overshadowed by the bits and
>pieces he is gleening from the documents he has been given about what
>happened to little Infant Tyrone.  The "eight ink marks" [285.18] that
>spell Slothrop only point to him right now - "It is all allied with the
>Worst Thing." [286.31-3]  Will he have some sort of Proustian moment if
>he ever gets a whiff of that Imiploex G - "he knows that what's
>haunting him now will prove to be the smell of Imipolex G." [286.39]
>In these documents he is the "Schwartzknabe" [286.11-12]
>("Blackchild"), what that will come to mean, Slothrop can only
>speculate, not having ever seen Imiploex G.  As far as the other family
>relationships you mention, well, I'm supposing that you weren't really
>serious about his blood connections to Enzian, etc.
>
>
>Michael
>
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OH, I'm serious. Lets take one relative at a time. Why is Uncle Lyle a
Jim Fisk?

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