VV(14) - Can You Dig It Baby

[David Morris]

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(281) "Do you ever dig what I'm trying to say," he wondered?
   "On the horn I don't," she answered, honest enough, "a girl doesn't
understand.  All she does is feel.  I feel what you play, like I feel what you
need when you're inside of me."
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Preface:
With Terrance I will have to agree [even though he may not agree that we agree]
that this is not really about "girls" just as he has been saying that his own
argument is not really homophobic.  An internal (but inconsistent) iconography
is inherent in Pynchon's fiction, and it is often at odds with the present
culturally aware reality.  God!  Could Pynchon really be a Rabid Catholic (RC)?

Main:
Paola's words succinctly communicate a "classic" aspect of the Female in the
cosmos: "Feeling."  Jung also had this function as one of his four types:

"Basically, Jung's typology is simple. Jung bases his typology on four
functions of consciousness, namely: feeling, thinking, intuition and sensation.


Feeling and thinking form a polarity, just as intuition and sensation do.
According to Jung, people are equal to the extent that every person possesses
these four basic functions. Differences between individuals are based on the
fact that the influence of each basic type is of a different strength within
each person."

http://www.cgjungpage.org/articles/razenberg.html

Here thinking/comprehending is contrasted with feeling, Paola's divisions. 
This division will grow as we progress to Fausto's Confessions (FC).  They will
become: Maltese V. British;  Abstraction V. Immediate/Concrete.  [Have you ever
noticed that "V." is the correct abreviation for "versus?"]  The first half of
this latter dichotomy (Abstraction) will also reverberate with multiple FS
themes:  Maltese versus British;  The "hothouse" of Fausto's confessional room
as both a retreat from the present and as a needed tabula rasa for needed
function metaphor, aka "history."

This all contrasts the intellect with the sensual, the rational process with
pure experience.   In GR Pynchon calls analysis and synthesis "pornography." 
He cannot mean it literally.  We all know that brains MUST process data, even
animal, even pig brains.  Messages from the cosmos cannot be recieved without a
weighing of the importance of their worth, a search for their pattern.

What Pynchon has given us here is a cosmology which is well estabilshed in the
I Ching.  The #1 hexagram is "The Creative."  The #2 hexagram is "The
Receptive."  Neither can function without the other.  All of life is contained
in the subtleties of the dance between the two.
So says Confucious.

V. is neither evil nor good.  She is an inescapable component of the world's
equation.

David Morris

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