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[Mark Wright AIA]

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--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> I don't think it's a fantasy any more than the rest of the text is a 
> fantasy: since this is fiction, Pynchon constructs GR's own "reality"
> (also 
> of course its own "fantasy").

Roger that, and fur shur.  But characters have Phictive Phantasies alla
time.... 

> That said, since I don't think this scene is a fantasy, "someone"
> would have 
> to have "beat up" Slothrop, but I'd say the more operative
> description is 
> "dominate."  Slothrop's life, and one arm, is left intact in order
> that he 
> can be forced down into the deep dark bowels of the ship and smack-up
> 
> against the small hanging body.  Presumably Bianca's,  but we never
> know for 
> sure.  Who would want to force Slothrop to do so?  Maybe Bianca
> herself, the 
> very powerful night-visioned presence which might be a ghost.  Who
> else 
> would care?

I think Slothrop is rattled by a fictive fantasy.  He comes back on
deck "still shaking", rather than bleeding from the mouth with an
immobilized arm.  Perhaps no one is dead, since the fantasy starts
before he ever goes below.  And no one up top (Stepahnia, Prokolowski)
seems aware of anything, particularly.  

Mark

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