Blicero a Nazi, a Faustian Nazi, S&M?

[David Morris]

I like this.  It also says of course that Blicero is a figure "of central 
importance in the novel."   Was Faust evil?  I suggest no more so than 
Blicero.  It is an apt comparison.

Blicero is the Sado-Father to Slothop's inept Oedipus.  Neither is evil.  
Both are inevitable and both heroic in their own spheres.

DM

>From: Terrance
>
>Lüneburger Heide, is most possibly a place of central importance in the 
>novel.  It is just there that the Faustian Nazi-figure Captain Blicero 
>apparently launches his special 00000 rocket, sending his sado-masochistic 
>object, the pale Gottfried, to die in space.
>
>http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/gr/finnished.html

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