Xenophobic or Homophobic? Blicero a Badass? Nope

[Terrance]

Another interesting essay: 


http://titan.iwu.edu/~wchapman/pynchon.html

Blicero's version of Rilke is more frankly sinister:

    he yearns to "leave this cycle of infection and death"
by transforming the life
    which surrounds him into a "new Deathkingdom" -- the
military industrial
    technocracy which produces and fires the Rocket (GR
723-4). As Khachig
    Tololyan points out, too, Enzian was the name of an
anti-aircraft rocket which
    German military scientists worked on but did not
complete before the war
    ended (41). The flower, then, is an emblem of the
routinized, labyrinthine
    "structures favoring death" that the novel protests, of
which Blicero is first
    patriarch.