Chasing ... Cutting

[Terrance Flaherty]

jbor wrote:

 Blicero denies the Holocaust, not Pynchon;
> and he does it to exonerate himself and protect his sanity.

Why use the word denial? It's not denial, not even in the
Psychological sense:  

An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to
acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings. 

It's not attempt to exonerate either? How would that work?
To protect his sanity, his humanity?  Or is it to transcend
the natural cycle of life and death, yes that's what it is. 

Don't Roger and Jessica have an affair to protect their
sanity, their humanity, to get away from the death and war?
Sure.  Don't the characters employ various forms of
paranoia--operational, creative, negative, mindless
pleasures--to escape, to protect their own sanity, their
humanity? Even to be re-born, not from a Mother that is war
through magic or take solace in chance or murphy's law or a
"fuck you" spell,  and so on? Sure, but Blicero is
different. All the characters want to find a away to protect
themselves, but Weissmann is not so  interested in
protecting or preserving. The passage you note:  The
question is asked about Kajte [97] but Blicero "up to a
point" finds the English bombing "agony delightful."  


 Enzian says, he is "a fabulous monster" [660].  The sexual
games are not domestic affairs for Weissmann/Blicero, they
are solipsistic gnostic affairs, it's about HIS (TRP's
italics) pain, HIS (TRP's italics) sin driven deep into
Their province, into synthesis and control," [661]. 

I'm curious, how do you account for the description on page
666 "at the top...." ???

How do you account for his reading of Rilke? It's entwined
as an integral element of his  oven game, the Oven State,
and must be accounted for. 

Yessenia