Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS

[David Morris]

>From: Michael Perez
>Terrance wrote:
>"This non-humanity is not, as so many have argued, simply Pynchon's
>Borgs or Terminators,human/machines, humans with plastic parts.  The
>process is not mechanical and the humans are not machines, but are
>humans in a world that no longer recognizes their humanity."
>
>When Pynchon does introduce us to "humans with plastic parts," like the
>Bad Priest, some humanity manifests itself.
>[snip]After the characters and the reader
>reestablish the humanity of humans given up for inanimate and realize
>the lack of humanity in the inanimate, all are faced with a
>considerable moral dilemma.  This is not, I believe a readers' trap, as
>Terrance asks about (or a writers' trap), but a presentation of a major
>philosophical question, there does not appear to be conscious deception
>or dangerous ambiguity.  The dialectics regarding this issue are left,
>for the most part, to the readers.
>

That's what keeps us comming back for more.  These are not "traps" but 
conditions viewed from many angles and metaphors.  One of the difficulties 
of delimnas is the simultaneous rightness and wrongness of all solutions, 
and thus a challenge to dig deeper.

David Morris

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