GRGR(18): Finding Lisaura

[David Morris]

This is a very belated reply.  I am intrigued
Terrance.  I await your fully fleshing this out.

> no synthesis without meeting
> > and heating.
> > >                          & beating?! kfl

> Yes, beating and being beat! But there is no 
> synthesis. Not the synthesis that is in any way 
> genuine or that does not deny death, love, and
> life in the process, but only the synthesis and
> control that seeks transcendence, but denies
> it by the nature of its quest, for example the
> synthesis of the System, of Them etc. 

Are you implying that "synthesis" is an enemy in GR. 
You qualify this above.  Does GR only deny the wrong
synthesis, or does it point to an alternative?

> There is the desire to unite, the
> quest for transcendental salvation, but the Sado-
> Masochistic act betrays the promise of escape and
> is only a vain, blind, power ritual, that
> perpetuates the infection of the System,
> the System that perverts with its papered over
> definition of the nature of synthesis and control
> and more importantly, with its own definition of
> the nature of freedom. 
> 
> The struggle between the victim and the victimizer
> does not involve synthesis in the religious sense,
> which is what is desired and needed for escape.

I'd have to agree with this on a most general level,
but does this imply GR posits a "real (religious)"
escape?  I agree this is the grail: escape,
transcendence.  The S&M ritual formalizes, makes
managable, the defacto (by corolary) Rule of Death
(and maybe attempts to reign-in Chaos), but it is not
transcendence.  It is accomodation.
> 
> It is telling, that Pynchon assumes we have read
> Mondaugen's story at this point in GR

I think he almost insists that we know M's story.  The
lessons M. has learned in his past life are powerful,
but what has he learned?  Whatever he's learned, it
has united him with Enzian and the scores of
"passed-over," even as he accepts Hitler's regime.

Good post Terrance.
Please don't tease us for too long.

David Morris
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com