DP

[Mark David Tristan Brenchley]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Terrance wrote:

> B/W and Gottfried and Sartre: 
> 
> The sadist's triumph is not and never, for even when he
> thinks to explode into victory some implicit unavoidable
> defeat rises: his victim looks up and makes of him an
> object. The sadist then, is compelled to realize that it is
> not an object but a subject he has possessed and this moment
> is a failure for sadism but a failure for masochism as
> well,  for an epistemological and ontological chasm
> separates self from self, freedom from freedom, and each is
> left to choose themselves within the system of the closed
> circuit of solipsistic history. 

	hmmm, someone has read their Being and Nothingness. I once thought
that sado-masochism was the perfect relationship, with each person knowing
and getting exactly what they want from the relationship. Course its a
murkier issue than that, but there's still something to be said for the
masochist and sadist conjoined.


> 
> B/W and Gottfried and Jung: 
> 
>  Jung says, "in Freud's myth the father becomes a
> demon who created a world of disappointments, illusions and
> suffering." 
> 
> In  GR, "The fathers have no power" and "the sons are
> condemned to the same passivity, the same masochist
> fantasies *they* cherished in secret...." 
> 
> But Blicero's power is Absolute. 
> 
> This "Dispensation" is said by the narrator to have come
> about  40 years ago (747). 
> 
> This a direct reference to the rise of  Nazism. 
> 
> "Thantz, are you going to judge this man?" 
> 
> The 175s don't take Thanatz in, they have constructed a "we"
> system with white death--Blicero at the top. Thanatz becomes
> a DP. 
> 
> The narrator here, perhaps the applied author asks,
> 
> Or maybe I just read it like this: 
> 
>  Have YOU ever been a DP in the American system of justice?
> Ever been in court with a court appointed attorney? Ever
> been in an American jail, an  American prison? An American
> homeless shelter? An American psychiatric hospital?  On the
> street without a buck, without a butt, without luck, without
> papers official and papers to roll yourself in with the
> others and share a smoke? Ever been stamped and numbered and
> handled and chained and prodded and herded and beaten? Ever
> been injected and straight jacketed and locked up? 
> Assigned, named, numbered, consigned, palpated, invoiced,
> routed and misrouted, detained, deloused?  Ever been exempt
> from nothing, bare foot under the street, under the bridge,
> under the gun, the knife, the man, your rathouse infected
> and occupied by a mad man crack head with the powerful
> scream and the strength to make you his ex-wife? Have you,
> for exchange, for a comfortable numbness, held that man in
> your arms and rocked him to sleep after he beat you almost
> to the grave? Have you been illegal and speechless and
> paranoid, an alien, a foreign man in a foreign land where
> the world of words swirled around you and you could not be
> understood, could not ask for comfort or direction, nothing
> was connected, no one connected to you? Have even your
> coughs been ignored as the language you refuse to learn, you
> jaundice a symptom of your debauchery, your infections your
> curse for daring to love another man? Have you been the
> weakest among the toughened outcasts? Whipped with a coat
> hanger by a young boy performing, entertaining the others?
> Accused or violating the rules of the outcasts but you only
> thought to do it but never did? Have you been made to labor
> for the king of the bums? Have you had enough and gotten
> tough too? And then have you felt the kindness of the
> outcast? Thank god for the preterite and Thank god for DP
> humor! and Alice! Land of Wonders!  Alice? There's a song
> about Alice. Have you ever been arrested? 
> 
> 
> "  'The act of injuring and the act of being injured are
> joined in the behavior of the whole injury.' Speaker and
> spoken-of, master and slave, virgin and seducer, each pair
> most conveniently coupled and inseperable--The last refuge
> of the incorrigibly lazy, Mexico, is just this sort of yang
> yin (could drive a man who  seeks Absolute power mad!) 
> rubbish."
> GR.88 
> 

	Pynchon toying with the idea of the Middle Voice (speaking of
which anyone know where I can find a copy of Charles Scott White's
"Kaironomia"?), now obsolete in our language but, apparently, widely used
in Ancient Greece and Sanskrit. Idea being that the subject and object are
dissolved into the language (not "I love you", but "loving"), no more
binary division...

Mark

> Yes, Pointy goes mad too, it's a yang and yin kinda bad
> karma madness and 
> Blicero the white man is at the top. 
> 
> The reversal, yin yang is the dislocation in the yin yang,
> the
> paradoxical. It's not something for a white man to deal with
> (guilt)
> or an orange man or a purple man. It's not a denial of the
> sins of the white man or the suffering of "other," it's a
> silence, it's a kindness. Blicero is not kind. 
> 
> "In the beginning of heaven and earth the were no words...."
> 
> Toa Te Ching 1.1
> 
> "Silence is the Consecration of the World"  
> 
> Melville
>