Benny Beat Parody

[David Morris]

Nice post, Terance.

>From: Terrance
>
>TRP satirizes the extreme and Benny Profane's imagination is focused on the 
>extreme. He yo-yos back and forth between the strange and the miraculous, 
>the intimate and the inanimate, the living and the dead, the sexual and the 
>deadly, just as surely as he yo-yos in his travels geographically.

I think you're right.  He is easily moved.  In some ways this makes him a 
"sensitive" akin to Slothrop.

>His mechanical heart is an emblem of his passivity and is thus a link to 
>the inanimate.

I'm sure you must have an answer to this question: "His mechanical heart?"  
Do you care to explain?

>Although he is willing to help Paola to a certain extent, he cannot commit 
>himself and thus will not give more than an uncertain promise that he will 
>call her. It's not easy being a schlemiel and that makes it hard to be 
>Paola or anyone else with Benny.

Well, he's not Pappy Hod, is he (or maybe he IS?)?  But that's what Paola 
wanted him NOT to be.  Slothrop is juevenile, not Pappy-like.  Paola seems 
though to want a Pappy, someone to take care of her.  She is the 
double-minded one, it seems, indecisive in her own way, somewhat like the 
prime Venus-chracter in GR.

>Wait till Fina gets a hold of his mechanical heart.

Indecisive and Mechanical are VERY different.  In fact, they are almost 
opposite.

David Morris

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