GRGR(22) - Summary 2 (stringless lyre)

[David Morris]

VERY good post, Terrance.  Thanks.

>From: Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
[snip]
>During our theater/theatre discussion I noted that
>Consciousness, as Pynchon portrays it in GR anyway, is a
>kind of second falling-- postlapsarian Man on a quest to
>Salvation is imprisoned in his own consciousness:  Mind (and
>Mind is both Reason and Myth in GR) is cut off from the
>world and is thus incapable of relating to the world
>adequately or with any satisfaction and so with
>pornographies (Faustian Science mixed with corrupt ions of:
>myth, mystery, magic, religious ritual, sacrament, oral
>community rites, holy grail,  a plethora of quests for
>"salvation" ) Man Narcissistically projects an Image of his
>Solipsistic imprisonment onto the world. Pynchon never tires
>of representing this narcissistic confinement, equating it
>with history (mirrors in V.) and extending it to Solipsistic
>history in GR (film). So Pointsman, the dogmatic Pavlovian,
>is haunted by "the sound of the V-1 and V-2, one the reverse
>of the other", because his spiritual mentor Pavlov
>considered this type of association, which is manifest in
>"irradiation" and "reciprocal induction", as the brain, in
>the mind of history. (GR.144) Weissmann is affected by this
>"pathology" since he holds on to a "Mirror-metaphysics."
>"Self -enchanted by what he imagined elegance, his bookish
>symmetries..." (GR.101)
>

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