GRGR(10) - That Futureless Look

[Richard Romeo]

>
>(209.2)  Hasn't he seen, in her "futureless look" some link to his own 
>past,
>something that connects them as lovers? [...] all her bets are in,  she has
>only the tedium now of being knocked one room to the next, [...] till
>inertia brings her to the last.
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Strange how Katje (in retrospect) is described as a Thanatoid. Think how so 
many are undone today by such lesser evils (but evil none the same) as 
television. For all of Pynchon's satire in Vineland re: this, it stings hard 
hwn one can link these guys back to a worse original, namely the underground 
dodges and compromises. In some sense, the folks today are worse off. They 
didn't have to make such no-win decisions. They don't have to work as hard 
to have us bouncing like Profane today, do they?
Anyway, the upshot is  You end up the same, wishing for death, fearing its 
manifestations, and wandering, wandering. You know you are dead and playing 
out the season.

Rich (mopery-ing)

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