GRGR(9): Welcome

[keith woodward]

In response to what Divid has said re: the quest... I have trouble looking
at Slothrop's quest as "classic", I think in many ways it is a response to
the classic quest and often looks more like an anti-quest.  Also, I have
equaql trouble with saying that Slothrop is "embarking", or for that matter
using much of any language that attributes much agency to Slothrop at this
early point in the novel.  I don't think he's embarking, he's been embarked
(if you take my meaning).  Nonetheless, I completely agree with you re: his
identity and his history, but there seems to be a constant thin line
between him searching for something and him falling into something (it
seems more often than not, he's discovering something that he didn't know
that he was looking for, but that everyone else seems to think he should be
looking for.)

Keith W, who sadly cannot yet grow a nice, thick, Wyatt Earp mustache


David said:
>Slothop is embarking on the classic "quest," which at its heart involves a
>journey where one is "changed."  His identity and his history are central to
>his quest, what he's looking for.  In the next section he grows a mustache.
>That is the beginning of his changing identity.
>
>>From: "bruce sublett"
>>
>>Seems to me most significant here is that Slothrop loses his uniform and
>>begins his by-degree transformation from simple soldier to heroic status
>>via
>>zoot, rocket-man togs, pig suit and so forth.
>>
>>BS
>
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