GRGR(11): More on Webley

[David Morris]

Bravo Terrance!

Pointy has enthroned "Desire."  He contrasts the "Will to Get" with 
"feminized" and "any extrahuman anxieties," AKA "Morals."  He has purposely 
conditioned himself.  He is now all male, all dog.

David Morris

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
>
> > Mike Crowley wrote:
>
> >
> > Now how do we move from Webley Silvernail to the
> > Brigadier, from cute dancing mice to shit-eating old men?
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > Michael J. Crowley
> > ------------------------------
> > 10 Park Hall
> > crowley at arches.uga.edu
>
>We follow Pointy on one level. Pointy is in one sense
>Richard III--a dog in need of money and a Lab/WAR. He needs
>money to fund his mad plans. Confronted with the extinction
>of his program, "[Pointy] gained a great bit of Wisdom: that
>if there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is
>nothing analogous in bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It
>come down, as it must, to the desires of individual men."
>Since Pudding has the bank, Pointy needs to control him,
>control his desires. What does the old man desire?  He
>desires to be demeaned, debased, and dead. Now if Pointy
>kills him, who will take over the money? Can't risk it. So,
>since Katje--pointy's dividend--is of no use in his Slothrop
>plan at the moment, he casts her as the Domina Nocturna to
>satisfy, if only symbolically, an Earnest desire for death.
>Pointy directs the ritual, the test, the return of the
>repressed, the stages or cells. The rituals in the seventh
>cell (not sure of the allusion here, revelations?) involves
>eating shit and golden cocktails and "when the [cane] cums
>down." He eats the shit of the Mistress of Death--a ritual
>of oneness with his fallen comrades. He drinks the piss in
>remembrance of Passchendael. He is caned in the S/M ritual
>to purify. Now when he speaks of Badajoz, he refers to the
>Mistress as the Bride (again, an allusion to Christ,
>perhaps) as the recipient of the hymn that proclaims Death
>as the Bride, as Christ, I think?? The rats, one could say,
>desire to live as humans. But no one is free of the cage of
>the war, of the lab, of the big D, Except Slothrop.
>
>TF

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