Dialectics and conspiracy

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Michael Perez wrote:
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> "Pynchon is satirizing dialectic and conspiracy. The conspiracies in GR
> are, political, economic, historical, psychological, theological, we
> might say Universal. They are ubiquitous and insidious, like an
> omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient god gone mad--down to the smallest
> elements of expanding or contracting nature/mind and out into the vast
> expanding or contracting space/mind.   Would it make sense for Pynchon
> to introduce his own conspiracy to the text or subtext, even while he
> satirizes Universal conspiracies?"
> 
> I agree, but we can't forget to link these to the personal conspiracies
> and the paranoia that feeds them. 

One and the same. 

 As JBFRAME reminds us, it doesn't
> mean that Their not really after you, but to imagine that the rocket is
> aimed directly at you and will hit you straight on like Slothrop in
> London and Pokler in the current episode is over the edge, obviously.

The rockets are not pointed at the moon. They are pointed
right at YOU and the earth. In many regards, YOU are just
like Slothrop in London--it doesn't have to have your name
on it.  True, on one level the paranoia that gives
Slothrop's the shivers is personal, but the cold war chills,
the cultural "paranoia(s)" the Universal conspiracies are
not, and the paranoia of Pokler in the field test is
his--though he's quite a different story, but the "paranoia"
is not.   



> Pynchon plays with both kinds of conspiracy quite amusingly and
> frightfully.
> 
> Michael

No doubt about it. One of those screams, is a Terribly
funny.