GRGR(12) "Plot" & Comments

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
>
>David Morris wrote:
>
> > He is a quester. And he is a survivor.  The roles he takes usually are
> > thrust upon him by others as he pushes forward, and he embraces them for 
>the
> > food and drugs that come along with.  He is on a very wild ride, but 
>does
> > this ride result in a "dead soul neutrality, feelingless?"  Or does it 
>lead
> > to a form of transcendance?  When he stops praying, is that a bad thing?
> >
> > David Morris
> >
>
>See around pages 488, in this chapter--
>
>
>"There is in fact, a general loss of emotion, a numbness he
>ought to be alarmed at, but can't quite...Can't..."
>
>Same chapter--"what do I need that badly", "seeker and
>sought", baited, and bait."
>
>pg 409-491

I can't comment specifically about these passages.  I'm not that far in the 
book and I need the context.  But the "seeker and sought" concept can be 
dealt with in traditional quest parameters.

Is the quest really about the search for an object?  Or is the "walkabout" 
more to the point?  The journey as the maker of the man wherein the walker 
seeks to be visited, overtaken by a vision, to be given a new identity.

What is Slothrop seeking?  The Rocket?  Yes and no.  He seeks knowledge, 
meaning.  If he seeks himself, that is appropriate to the Vision-Quest.  
Slothrop has purposely _thrown himself_ (Ok, They've "thrown" him too) to 
the wind, seeking his fortune, at the mercy of the gods.

Sorry, but the results of this quest are too far away in the text for us to 
appropriately, or at least fully, discuss at this point.  Anyway, there's 
one hell of a ride to experience first.

David Morris

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