GRGR(26) - Paranoia=Analysis?
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri May 12 09:24:13 CDT 2000
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(567.9) Like signals sent out for travelers, shape keep repeating for him,
Zonal shapes he will allow to enter but won't interpret, not anymore. The
most persistent of these [...] are the stairstep gables [...] like monuments
to Analysis. [...] [delta]x and [delta]y [...] film and calculus, both
pornographies of flight.
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Pornography akin to that by Eadweard Muybridge?
http://masters-of-photography.com/M/muybridge/muybridge_ascending_stairs_full.html
Slothrop has shut down Analysis. For him it has become pornography. But
for the rest of us such a finding that off-switch is nearly impossible, at
least in the waking state. The most annoying and endless round of questions
a child asks begins with a why and continues with another why in
response to each answer. Every child has done it.
Has Slothrop surpassed Kute Korrespondences? Has he gotten past Paranoia?
Contrary to a knotting into, Slothrops path in the Zone seems to have
been a progressive disentanglement from all plots and allegiances. His
allegiance to his own identity, especially that of his nationality, has
been hard to break, but that too seems to be waning.
So, is Slothrop moving past Analysis into another mode, and if so, what is
it? Anti-paranoia? Im not sure if thats it. Id call it the Unfiltered
Experience, which might be akin to Nirvana, if one can handle it. Is
Slothrop approaching the Buddha?
Try not to think about it.
David Morris
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