GRGR(17) The Hauptstufe myth

[jporter]

rj, in finale:

>Everyone is chasing Slothrop as much as they are chasing the Rocket, if
>not more so: Pointy's crew, Major Marvy's Mothers, Tchitchy, the
>Argentinians, he keeps bumping into Enzian, and then the Counterforce,
>and his "chroniclers" too. He remains central to the concerns of the
>novel throughout, I think.
>
>best

And don't forget: us. If it is anyone that is tracking the "new mark
[twain] in town" each behind the tinted glass of his/her own Silver Shadow,
it is us he is trying so "inanimately" to avoid being caught, captured and
otherwise summed up by.

Perhaps a metaphysical clue for us: the first hint of agency in the
heretofore dead aggregation of matter that preceeded the miracle we take
for granted may have been the need to avoid that which lies behind "the
word"- all the rest of the universe- from which life distinguishes itself.

jody