GRGR(11) - the Master (PPF 1&2)

[David Morris]

>From: rj
>
> > also, i suspect that the (im)morality of a mathematical eqation should 
>be
> > identically zero which would make the "creatures" (of the Master Eqn)
> > arbitrarily (or 'singularly' perhaps) innocent...
> > (how innocent do you want them to be?)....
>


The "creature" is not able to strive with the "Master." Thus he is by nature 
"innocent."  The equation might be false.  The clay might rightly ask the 
potter, " Why makest me thus?"


>That's very interesting, and in the context of your last question I
>think that Pynchon is very eager to illustrate how far each of the
>characters is wittingly or unwittingly serving a particular "Master", as
>well as demonstrating that there can often be more than one master
>involved, or a concealed hierarchy, which changes the odds. As far as
>the Master Equation theory goes

This may be the Pivot: "The Moving Master."  But I think Pynchon aches for a 
solution.  Moving Masters dance away when questioned.

Grab their hand and SPIN!!!!

>-- and it is a good one I think -- if it
>is Jamf or Pointy who have intermediated on behalf of the Master
>Equation then the ratio changes again. In fact, PfP #2 becomes a fairly
>subtle arithmetic formulation of indeterminacy in itself, does it not?
>
>I'm also thinking in terms of Slothrop's (and Profane and Zoyd and the
>Thanatoid's) schlemielhood, in whose terms the "Master" is the
>inanimate, cultural dross, society's wastes (the teev, comix,
>Shit'n'Shinola) etc. In this context "innocence" is in fact *not* a
>condition devoutly to be wished. Slothrop is gradually tainted by his
>experiences: he becomes less "innocent", but somehow better, or more
>whole (psychically, if not physiologically), as he gains knowledge of
>himself and his history. I think Pynchon might be confronting the
>traditional binary opposition of innocence and guilt as moral
>extremities (cf. Butler's *Erewhon* perchance? Or is it
>innocence/experience: perhaps Blake is pertinent here?)
>
>best

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