GRGR(10) inner voices
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 29 21:15:45 CDT 1999
I really think this is a very important "possibility" in the text.
Otherwise the romp in the zone is without "real" conflict. Control Vs.
Automaton. Which is it? Probably both.
David Morris
>From: JL <trailerman at cableinet.co.uk>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: GRGR(10) inner voices
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:47:28 +0100
>
>217.10 :-
> For the pe-nis, he thought-was, his, owwwwn!
> (inner voices) Was, his, own!
>
>with an unsung '- after all' ? Meaning S was in control all along ?
>Assuming these voices are within Slothrop, rather than Stephen , sounds
>like those niggling doubts have shifted to the other side.
>Tyrone's conscience/subconscious is trying to tell him Hey - don't
>be too quick to assume that Free Will no longer applies just 'cos
>you've found out about Them. Giving yourself the role of Tool of
>Others is just as lazy, just as slothful as your old pre-revelation
>lackadaisickal self. Keep a handle on your freewheeling Americanism,
>chum - that's what They're trying to condition out of you now.
>
>Oh, those reader traps. Got me again.
>
>JL
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> if you could see her through my eyes
> (she wouldn't. look jewish. at all.) [ - fred ebb ]
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