Dialectics and conspiracy

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> 
> Does Pokler doubt this destiny? Doubt the system won? 
> 
> 
> 
> Here, the Rocket functions on several metaphorical and
> ironic levels. In part (Pokler's part here), the rocket is
> now linked to the Destiny and the "poor harassed German soul
> and to Faustian Hubris.  The rocket, we were told, remember,
> we were told this in the Enzian and Wiessmann flashback, was
> a total system won--a homosexual/S&M love, against the
> ENTROPIES of lovable but scatterbrained mother earth.  What
> happens though is that the rocket, if by a failure or
> whatever, when it explodes, disintegrates entropically. What
> is won away from nature? And why does Pynchon call it a
> total SYSTEM?
> 

The rocket is a total system of great complexity, not just a total system
in the engineering sense but in the human sense too, composed of and
dealing in Lives, WON from personal destinies. 

Which course was Franz to take? Personal identity--or Impersonal Salvation
in the bosom and totality of the Rocket? Gain freedom from lonliness and
failure? And might not personal extinction be a reasonable price to pay
for some kind of crazy Nazi Spirtual Continuity--if indeed that was what
old vBraun was yapping about--the Rocket as the continuity of our
spiritual existence after (personal) death.

Who wouldn't want to sign on for the duration--or the duration and six
months as the terms of WWII draft and enlistment read.

				P.