grgr(10) backwards

[David Morris]

I really haven't nailed it down, but consider the following:

1. De-conditioning involves reversal of learning, sort of.  It's really just 
more conditioning.  So regression would be just more training by Them.  To 
what end?  THAT's a good question!  What IS/WAS Pointy's plan for Slothrop?

2. Slothrop's "mechanism," if it exists, was instilled in his infancy.  They 
may be trying to explore his consciousness in terms of his original 
conditioning experience.  Are they in a sense dissecting him?


>From: Cjhurtt6 at aol.com
>To: fqmorris at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>CC: Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
>Subject: Re: grgr(10) backwards
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:22:11 EDT
>
>In a message dated 9/22/99 7:29:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:
>
><< >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?
>   >>
>ok...that sorta makes sense. but what would be the motive for Them? is
>pynchon trying to make a point about something? i mean why regression? why
>not say...color blindness?

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