some loose ends

[Terrance]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> Not S&M unless you propose fetishism is S&M.  V. only watches, and Melanie
> only poses.
> 
> DM

Here it is David, the Agon must be sustained in Pynchon's
world. 
But here is an example of the agon broken down, but it is
not by S&M reversal (Blicero and Gottfried, where in the end
Blicero is passive, Man made--platic--  "free to Fall" or
should we say to fly and fall or as one P-lister joking but
with much insight said, to fry)  or dialectic, here there is
no submission and no 
dominance, but simultaneous sovereignty, but the agon is not
sustained, but a fusing, a symbiotic and mutual "love"
breaks the paradox. In Pynchon this is evil. The paradoxical
agon must be sustained, there is no way out. Think of P's
characters, how many love triangles can you name? It's Love
in the Western World, an ancient paradox, love, passion
(Christ's and Man's), death. Here love and death are united
and all humanity, even the little bit Stencil tosses in make
the tale a love story is gone.  


And yet one solution to a most ancient paradox of love:
simultaneous sovereignty yet a fusing-together. Dominance
and submissiveness didn't apply; the pattern of three was
symbiotic and mutual. V. needed her fetish, Melaine a
mirror, temporary peace, another to watch her have pleasure.
For such is the self-love of the young that a social aspect
enters in: an adolescent girl whose existence is so visual
observes in a mirror her double; the double becomes a
voyeur. Frustration at not being able to fragment herself
into an audience of enough only adds to her sexual
excitement. She needs, it seems, a real voyeur to complete
the illusion that her reflections are, in fact, the
audience...comes consummation...They are she.


Gotta find a woman that be good to me 
won't take my whiskey try to give me tea

easy wind....