GRGR(18) - Obedience

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

David Morris wrote:

> This German-Obedience theme ("I was only following
> orders") seems summed up (Freudian Terrance?) in the
> Hansel & Gretel story: Childhood Obedience
> (victimization) vs. Oedipal Escape.
> 

Yes, I'll go along with this, but Pynchon's use of fairy
tales and the children in GR is a huge topic someone should
write about, and homelessness too, but even if we stick to
just H&G, we will have quite a lot to talk about. Pynchon's
spin is complicated. Perhaps we can take one H&G scene at a
time and then tie them up and bake them in a freudian oven
for few days. Or we could start with Isle's moon paradise
and work back to the first H&G scene--Kaje, Blicero, and
Gottfried?  

TF