grgr(10) backwards

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 22 09:28:52 CDT 1999


Thank God!  Some GRGR content:

>From: Cjhurtt6 at aol.com
>
>i don't know if it's been discussed yet, but i was wondering what you folks
>take on pynchon's use of regression imagry. authors whim? some deep or
>obvious thing that i'm not picking up on?

Well there was this post earlier from Terrance:

>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?

I've been meaning to ask Terrance about this "(flawed) perfect scheme" 
comment.  The scheme must have to do with Freudian/Pavlovian models and 
Pointy's experiment, but can anyone (Terrance?) get more specific?

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