VV(13): Enters Weismann

[Doug Millison]

I offered a response to your post. You are free to take the conversation
wherever you want to take it.  

If you wish to continue with the thread I picked up re V., here's what I
said: 

>Look at the context in which Pynchon puts Weissmann -- in V., an officer in
>the service of a nation on a mission of genocide -- and the continuity with
>GR is unmistakeable. He's a younger man in V., of course. I suppose you
>could argue Weissmann/Blicero is a sort of "comic boob" in GR, too -- all
>that melodramatic whining and whingeing and carrying on in his self-pitying
>parody of Rilkean German Romanticism (but lacking the empathy and insight
>that lets Rilke get to the value of individual suffering as a means to
>solidarity with fellow humans), even as he advances the Nazi cause, 
>inflicts
>pain on those most loyal to him, sends his lover up in flames as tribute to
>the death god he serves. Weissmann fulfills in GR all the potential Pynchon
>gifts him with in V.