is sloth lost? (was: "underlying causative process")

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Eric Rosenbloom wrote:
 It may or may not be  relevant that Pynch wrote an essay --
again for the New York Times Book Review -- praising the Sin
of Sloth.

Is that what he does in that essay? Or is he looking at more
of those underlying causative processes? 

(I seem to remember he keeps talking about what is under,
what is beneath and how that gets measured and produced,
timed and sold causing a sleep not of reason in Blake's
sense, but of sleep in Pynchon's very positive spin on one
type of Sloth). 

Yeah, he spins the term around and around, the poor wall
street copymachineman (see Charles Sheeler and Ford) and the
Sloth, not HIS, the poor ah! of HUMANITY mind you, hey "I
prefer not to sir" ain't no Slothman's answer, but it does
get him a place to rest his bones. 

[[{ Dickens, noted to I think, for his distress of whatever
about all those, again a little Blake's London here,
chartered streets, Blake's hell actually or the city or
Dickens or M&Ms (Norma Jean's nose and the candy and Mumford
and McLuhan, why all the Catholics, maybe it's me) ]]

And doesn't he kinda sell his VL TV book here? 

And I know we can read it different, I'm not disagreeing
violently here, but I agree with what Doug has said a
billion times about the last two paragraphs or so with some
adjustments needed for the  progressive and not regressive
nostalgia P is noted for. 

> 
> Personably, I think Pig God Bodine is the most human presence (because
> in the sham world of a book, humans are a race of gods) in Pynchon's
> work, all the way back to Lowlands he's the one that saves your ass.
> Mebbe Slothrop's got a sympathetic frequency there: Slather Up! (which
> is to say, Spread it on thickly).
> 
> Yours,
> Eric R

Yeah, I have taken this position on Pig too, but he's none
too simple, doesn't he get involved in, well some not so
nice treatment of women and it seems to me that P is pretty
progressive on the treatment of women so....I'm not damning
him to hell for indulging his body, his will to get laid,
but, well come to think of it, that would make him a more
human if not humane character than most, but he does make
love to that bike and his interest in Paola (all the men
that lust after become pigs...a recurring trope in P if not
in literature back to Homer.