visual reversal

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 15 14:03:39 CDT 1999


Male regression & V.ness makes me think of the Mother.  Katje becomes 
Slothrop's Mother/Lover.  All kinds of Freudian potentail there, Jung, too.  
That sucking sound is pulling us inside a dark hole.  Diving back into the 
womb and all.


>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
>
>David Morris wrote:
> >
> > THEY have an identity in mind for Slothrop which involves regression:
> > ----------
> > (204.14) Presto change-o!  Tyrone Slothrop's English again!
>
>OK
> > ----------
> > Why do they want him to be British "again?"  Get him naked and give him
> > Bloat's uniform.  Regression seems to be their goal, all the way back to
> > ancestral times.  Note in the GRGR(10) their designs for his new 
>mustache.
>
>Yes, presto, what a (flawed) perfect scheme . Yes, waxing
>back through Slothrop's ancestry, with vomit flowing back
>into the mouth and all. Do you connect this to V.enus?

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