Gottfried & Blicero

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:

> So you guys ARENT going to answer my questions?  Jeez, I hope you two aren't in
> the business.  Won't answer questions from the class, which you run anyway like
> it's the McLaughlin Group or something ("Wrong!").  You'd make lousy professors


The questions I could decern are, is Pynchon beyond good and evil, 
and why is it important they both be men tonight. Let me give quick
off the top of my head answers and think about it some more.

No, P does not see himself as an Ubermensch. However he must see the
forces that drive the planet as beyond good and evil.

I read "important they both be men" to mean that at this critical
point Blicero does not wish to use Gottfried for a girl (image him as a
girl or woman), the implication being that at other times such might be
the case. Perhaps the seriousness and finality of the present occasion
require that Gottfried be allowed his true biological male identity. Also
it will accommodate a father/son relation. But I'm no sexpert.

				P.