"Morality" in *GR*

[David Morris]

>From: "jbor"
>
>Millison:
>
> > Slothrop and Pokler are both victims of systems, victims of Them
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> > "He knew about Nordhausen and the Dora camp:  he could see -- the 
>starved bodies, the eyes of the foreign prisoners [....] He had known, too, 
>all along, that Ilse was living in a re-education camp [....] he could 
>finally put the two data together " (428);
>
>Pynchon's flash-forward from Pokler's conversation with Weissmann to his 
>entrance into the camp is as follows:
>
>      Later, in the Zone, with his guilt become a sensual thing, prickling 
>at his eyes and membranes like an allergy, it would seem to Pokler that he 
>could not, even by that day in Weissmann's office, have been ignorant of 
>the truth. ...  He should have throttled Weissmann .... (428)

Overseeing Pokler's & "Ilse's" lives, playing with them both as pieces on 
his chess-board, is Blicero.  And Blicero has his ultimate goal in mind 
early on.  This is why he guilt-grooms, S&M-conditions, Pokler for years and 
years.  Think how many other Pokler's Blicero must have managed over the 
years to accomplish his personal pet-project...

DM


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