[David Morris]

This post has me curious Claire:
You're not related to Terrance Flaherty, are you?
DM

>From: "Clare Kennedy"
>
>Slothrop, as Mr. Perez tells us (thanks!) is beginning to discover that
>Imipolex G, Sandoz, and LSD, the Swiss cartel, IG, Shell, and Psychochemie
>AG of Zurich are connected and that as his "ancestors" who "reassert
>themselves" and the signs (the smell of Imipolex G, mostly) are returned,
>they link him to a complex multinational control enterprise that has a
>patent on his penis.  This whole family thing reminds me of old Ludwig
>Wittgenstein's "Family Resemblance" and "Games": "And the result of this
>examination is: we see a complicated network of similarities overlapping 
>and
>criss-crossing: sometimes overall similarities, sometimes of detail. 66 and
>"I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities 
>than
>'family resemblances.'" 67 This is the kind of Irony Tom likes best,
>remember in V., at the end of the SW Africa narrative, it is Weissmann that
>decodes the sferics as "GODMEANTNUURK," an anagram of "Kurt Mmondaugen," 
>and
>"DIEWELTISTALLESWASDERFALLIST." This irony (that metaphor and plot can not
>transcend a world in which the world simply is), is playing here again.
>Ludwig W. subverts Stencil's quest for V, but also opens to the history of
>what the "world" that is just the world (or case)-Sudan, Venezuela, SW
>Africa, Nazi Germany, with increased violence and the annihilation of
>CULTure and HISstory, culminating right here in the Zone with a mockery of
>Apocalypse (the "slate wiped clean" or for you metaphysicians, "tabula
>rasa"),  from which rises not an openness and Freedom, but the world that 
>is
>the case. Slothrop is collecting clues, he has learned that his buddy
>Tantivy may be filed away with a toe tag and that Jamf may be dead, he has
>card from Waxwing, papers to be Ian Scuffing, he has money and a message
>from Squalidozzi, and Schweiter's material, and he is beginning to hear
>America as it sounds to non-Americans. He learns that the underground is
>just like the above ground market, organized as Semyavin tells him,
>"everything is specialized" from watches to dope. Slothrop discovers that
>"information is the only real medium of exchange," somethin he couldn't
>quite learn earlier from Katje and the boys. Slothrop learns that his
>Harvard sheep skin was payed for with his life, his father (Schwarzvter)
>sold his little white ass (is Slothrop white?) through his "uncle" Jim Fisk
>Lyle Bland to IG Farben and jamf. He learns that Imipolex G was a project 
>in
>Nordhausen and that Polker worked on the project. He meets a lunitic 
>racist,
>Marvy, who tells him of the Schwarzkommando. He makes it with Geli,
>Tchitcherine's lover and she gives him the full name of Schwarzgerat. 
>Enzian
>tells Slothrop that he is free and Geli says the place is open now, back to
>anarchism, which reminds us of the argentine and the gaucho'cowboy American
>frontier of destiny. But , Slothrop is not free, as the repressed returns,
>including what has been repressed in Slothrop, the forbidden wing. Turns 
>out
>that Slothrop's penis is wired down the white toilet bowl of the west, he
>can't think of it as his own anymore, can he guys? Not when it is "a
>colonial outpost." Schwarz-is everywhere and it seems that Slothrop and
>Enzian are Brothers in darkness, linked bythe rocket, bound and manipulated
>like slaves. Like the v-2, these boys have been subjected to external
>control, but Enzian at least knows his Master, while Slothrop's master only
>surrounds him at Jamf's grave like an odor, like a shadow.
>
>
>
>
>______________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com