Kirilov, was Re: VV(18): Suicide

[Monica Belevan]

Yes, Paul. =)
But if you've read "The Devils" there is an entire dialectic, and even a 
dogma, to the behaviour, determination and deductions of characters such as 
Kirilov and "long-eared" Shigalyov, who promotes the idea that unlimited 
liberty will conduct to unlimited despotism. Surely it can all be 
extrapolated to the many mindless ( albeit often artful) pleasuresto be 
found in the Pynchonesque ouvre? =)

Love,
Monica

>From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Kirilov, was Re: VV(18): Suicide
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:05:37 -0400
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>
>From: "Monica Belevan" <syphillitic_pig at hotmail.com>
> > All of which reminds Monica of Kirilov in Dostoyevsky's " The Devils".
> > Konstantin Mochulsky calls him the most "metaphysical" character in the
> > Dostoyevskian bestiary; a bridge-engineer with lustreless eyes and a 
>very
> > particular gravitation to Being and Nothingness, to animation,
>inanimation,
> > (the unsung dynamics of pre and postanimation?)...
>
>Right on, Monica. Bridge-engineers above all should eschew dialectical
>contruction methods. Metaphysics may be OK But when it comes to bridges
>definitely no excluded middles.
>
>             P.
>

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