GRGR(30): Projection

[Jeremy Osner]

Look at this: on p. 661, [bearing in mind that I can't figure out how
Katje fits in to the American-Racial-Fantasy spectrum] Katje is
flirting, to distance herself from Enzian. But "Understand it isn't
*his* blackness, but her own -- an inadmissible darkness she is making
believe for the moment is Enzian's, ..."

This line set off for me a long chain of thoughts concerning projection,
most of which is probably only related to GR by the thinnest of threads,
prolly not really germane to our group read. Short version is, We can
only impute motives to Slothrop, Katje, Roger and the rest of them by
projecting our own darkness onto them. (Note the happy coincidence, that
"projection" is also the method by which movies are shown.) Oh, and one
other thing, look at the bottom of 661: "Oh, *ho*. Here's whatcha came
for, folks." -- Where the narrator of GR is projecting his own motives
onto *us* the audience!

J

--
"To see the light of the world", as a description
of the process of birth, we hear from the mouths
of those who believe themselves already to be
standing in the light of the world, triumphant.

Coming out of the Cave
http://www.readin.com/books/hohlenausgange