Blicero

[Terrance]

"a discovery that love, among these men, once past the
simple feel and orgasming of it,  had to do with masculine
technologies, with contracts, with winning and losing.
Demanded in his own case that he enter
the service of the Rocket...."  

This is what Enzian discovers about Weissmann. 

Again, if we consider Weissmann's reading of Rilke, we see
what P is up to. 
Weissmann longs to part with humanity and nature. His cult
seeks nothing less than a
surrogate order that will dominate natural cycles through
artifice and stasis. The term transformation in GR,  I'm
sure,
caused the hair on the back of those readers familiar enough
with Rilke's use of this term to stand up. Back in 1973,
Locke's and several
Reviews of the novel claimed that the most important
cultural figure in Gravity's Rainbow was Rainer Maria Rilke
and that the book could be read as a serio-comic variation
on Rilke's Duino Elegies and their German Romantic echoes in
Nazi culture.  Weissmann's transformation is infrahuman,
demonic,  In fact, Enzian speculates that Blicero has become
a "fabulous monster."
Enzian says, "If he is alive," he may have changed by now
past our recognition. We could have driven under him in the
sky today and never seen. Whatever happened at the end, he
has transcended. Even if he's only dead. He's gone beyond
his pain, his sin-driven deep into Their province, into
control, synthesis and control [GR.660-61]. These terms
(synthesis and control) are exactly those used by the ghost
of Walter Rathenau to describe the transcendent  principles
that
actually drive history, as opposed to surface illusions of
cause and effect.  As an adherent to the Cartel, Blicero
joins in encouraging the proliferation of "structures
favoring Death." Look high, Death, death which is a
pornography, Death which impersonates life, the fecund
mystery of female earth and 
gravity. Weissmann with his plastic vagina!  In Blicero's
realm the Faustian Quest 
is for the blood of christ turned chemical. 
His is the Power to synthesize an alternative to the natural
processes of
Life itself  and to control the unfolding of all events,
thus fulfilling the V seige nightmare of stasis and
omnipotence. It is this that permits  Blicero to
lose his last vestiges of moral responsibility in the
transcendental labyrinths of control. The result of this
divestiture is an aura of absolute and disembodied
evil, of Qlippoth spirituality, that causes the band of
homosexual prisoners-the "175'S" from the Dora camp-to
choose Blicero as the head of an "invisible SS" that will
carry beyond earthly bounds the principles of Nazi
oppression: "He is the Zone's worst specter. He is
malignant, he pervades the lengthening summer nights. Like a
cankered root he is changing, growing toward winter, growing
whiter, toward the idleness and the famine. ...His power is
absolute. "