LSD

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

jbor schrieb:

> on 8/12/01 6:58 PM, lorentzen-nicklaus at lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
> wrote:
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> > ps: 
> > the sentence "but i  never took the drug" seems to 'falsify' the
> > hilarius=leary 
> > thesis, no? 

> I agree. Later, Oedipa, thoroughly self-absorbed herself, will come to him
> in the hope that he will "talk her out of a fantasy".
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>     "Cherish it!" cried Hilarius, fiercely. "What else do any of you have?
>     Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax
>     it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it
>     dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You
>     begin to cease to be." (95-6)
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> It doesn't sound to me like the vengeful and unrepentant cry of an evil Nazi
> scientist.

  indeed. sounds more like fritz perls who always warned against fighting 
  symptoms. then they just become worse, because you're trying to exclude what 
  jungians call the shadow. things can truly only go after they have become     
  manifestated  f u l l y ... so symptoms are kinda helping ...  kai

> Oedipa calls him "Hitler Hilarius", but I'm not sure that there
> isn't an ironic distance between the narrative and "narratrix" here.
>
> best
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