Chasing ... Cutting

[Terrance Flaherty]

jbor wrote:

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> >From: "Terrance Flaherty" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> 
> > I don't know you mean by "these emotive terms" I am bandying
> > about?
> >
> > Banishment? That's the term of the text 665.
> 
> Right, so it is. Sorry. It might be interesting to consider the significance
> of the inverted commas around that word "liberation" in the text, however.



Right, and I'm sorry for what appears to be my dismissive,
superior tone which you find quite offensive. 


> 
> But I take your point: "Dora was home, and they are homesick." Possibly they
> were better treated there than they had been previously.



Well, one thing we know, they were treated poorly and for a
very long time not only in Germany but in the U.S.A. and the
West generally--TRP's target. 

It may sound a bit absurd to suggest that they were treated
better at Dora, 
but it's an important step towards understanding what TRP is
up to here. Like other  zone DPs they were treated very
badly in their "Homes." 

   In addition to this however, perhaps they are not quite
liberated in that 
they remain prisoners in the Zone. Perhaps the freedom of
the zone is only a clever deception of the rocket cartel
(see the finger on page 566). Arrangements are being made,
governments
are putting up fences, a new state is taking shape and the
rocket is its soul. 

The 175s have been exiled from their
home (homelessness being a major theme of both Rilke's
poems and GR--Slothrop as prodigal son, Enzian as Moses
etc.). 
They cannot bear to be away from Dora, where
obviously they were prisoners and were not treated well
either. But because of the poor treatment they were
subjected to for so long outside of Dora they have in their 
banishment from prison taken Blicero as their highest
oppressor.