MRS TRP/House of Morgan

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:

Sorry, his parents were paid, his education loan so to
speak, came from the IG Octopus, an agreement negotiated by
his "uncle" Lyle Bland, Jamf, GE and Morgan, etc. 

> 
> Interesting, right? Slothrop learns that his Harvard
> conditioning was paid for by his parents. The middle man was
> Lyle Bland. The money was Morgan Money. And Morgan and GE
> pay for Marvy's Rocket Party. Slothrop, always changing
> costumes, while being perused by Marvy (wearing a U.S.A.
> white stetson hat, his men wear GR stenciled hats) puts on a
> Hitler (as artist, painter) disguise. The money, follow the
> money, the rockets, the oil, it's another quest, the
> detective story.
> 
> "They" function on several levels. They are We. We are They,
> and we are all together. They control everything, even
> dreams and sex.  They control nature, sometimes THEY are
> nature, They control the Here-After, THEY  manufacture
> lives, kill, and reconfigure time and space. The Henchmen,
> like Richard M. are characters in Pynchon's fiction. Some of
> the characters embody evil, Blicero and Greta, are two
> examples. Pynchon is many things. In part,  he  is a
> political writer, a satirist. He trgets the West. If you
> read Weber his political/economic targets become clear.  He
> has specific historical people, firms, events, in mind. VL
> makes this clear. It's very hard to dig it out of GR. Very
> difficult. But it is there.
> 
> PS Foucault is not cited by McHale on sex and punishment,
> but I think McHale is closer to him that Pynchon's sources
> and this may be a problem.
> 
> Weber, Freud, Norman O. Brown, Kraft-Ebbing, etc., these are
> Pynchon's sources, not Foucault.