Like a taxi throbbing waiting

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Dave Monroe schrieb:

> What does it mean to have "Stencilized" "Mondaugen's
> Story"?  What did Mondaugen "really" say?  Or not say,
> as the case may be? 


  these are very interesting questions. here's an answer or two. like 
  ulrich, musils "man without qualities", stencil stands not only for himself 
  but for a cultural pattern on the scale of society. so, the story as such is  
  not only filtered through his own mental structure (that's always the case   
  with any story told by human beings), but also through social developments of 
  the 20th century adorno once described as the "process of standardization".   
  this has to do with political totalitarism (and some passages in the   
  "dialektik der aufklärung" do also refer to the new deal), the positivistic   
  power of science, and the cultural industry. on the subjective level this 
  manifests as the unability to make real experiences ("ticket mentality"). and 
  in my opinion that's exactly - think of his talking about himself in the third 
  person - what stencil is embodying. (benny too, but just the other way round; 
  while he has too little "identity", stencil has too much of it). with his,   
  taken the issue of style, rather unelegant hint at the end of this chapter,   
  pynchon seems to be warning us against a millisonian reading of mondaugens   
  story (which, btw, can, like "the secret integration", also be read as an   
  externalized chapter of gr). but what do to then with the data this story   
  offers us? well, unlike other list-members i do not think at all that trp was 
  too stoned or too paranoid too finish gravity's rainbow properly. the   
  multi-layered openness of its last part ("the counterforce") forces the reader 
  to amplify and re-edit the text according to his or her own true streamings 
  ... by doing so, we might, for a moment or two, tranform from "them" into   
  "us" ... & so it takes no wonder that richard nixon aks "what?" ... our     
  reading of mondaugens story won't work if we if take it, with the mentality of 
  the post/fordistic consumer, as unchangeable "fact" ... "6.54  meine sätze   
  erläutern dadurch, dass sie der, welcher mich versteht, am ende als unsinnig  
  erkennt, wenn er durch sie - auf ihnen - über sie hinausgestiegen ist. (er   
  muss sozusagen die leiter wegwerfen, nachdem er auf ihr hinaufgestiegen ist.) 
  er muss diese sätze überwinden, dann sieht er die welt richtig.", as crazy 
  luwi put it when ww one was over ...

kfl