GRGR(33) - Fathers and Sons

[David Morris]

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(723.30) "Can you feel in your body how strongly I have infected you?  I was 
meant to: [...] Death in its ingenuity has contrived to make the father and 
the son beautiful to each other as Life has made male and female..."
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This passage is a big key to the workings of GR's universe.  It is Blicero's 
conception of how Blackest Death has forged its empire in the midst of 
unbearably Green Life.  It is a counterfeit love and an infertile cycle.

The Father purposely infects the Son.  In response to the Son's unbearable, 
impossibly beautiful "immortality" compared to the Father's impending death, 
the Father injects, infects, Death into the Son.

Likewise, the Son adores the Father, idolizing him, wishing to be him, and 
thus likewise, Oedipally, seeking to kill his source.

This mutual hetero-generational, homo-sexual magnetism is the contrivance of 
Death.  This Father-Son attraction revolves around an identity jealousy: 
each wants to be the other, and correspondingly to kill the other.  This, 
according to Blicero, is the mechanism that Death has contrived to 
perpetuate and expand its reign.

Blicero speaks in universal, not personal terms.  "All of us" is his 
audience.  He is clear to acknowledge his own slavery to Death's Cycle, and 
he fervently wishes to transcend it.

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(724.6)  "I want to break out - to leave this cycle of infection and death.  
I want to be taken in love:  so taken that you and I, and death, and life, 
will be gathered, inseparable, into the radiance of what we would 
become...."
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Is this not a noble goal?  Blicero seeks freedom from the curse of 
consciousness and a form of return to the primordial source.  But what form? 
  From the context one is lead to believe that the launching of the 
_WILLING_ Son is the means of Blicero's transcendence  Like Jesus of old, 
Gottfried has to accept the cup that is put before him by the Father.  
Gottfried is the Pivot in this segment, his innocence and love, like Geli's, 
might be the true magic power.  "What is to Come" is his response to 
Blicero's plea:  This is the moment of decision.

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(724.19)  It all poises here.  [...] if there is still hope for Gottfried 
here [...], then there is still hope elsewhere.  The scene itself must be 
read as a card: what is to come.
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Like Slothrop, Gottfried too has become a crossroad.  His role, unlike (or 
maybe JUST like) Slothrop's, centers on his AGENCY.  Does Gottfried have 
any?  Did Slothrop?  Gottfried must either push the Witch into the oven, or 
he must climb into it....

David Morris


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