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

[Terrance]

I disagree on tow points. first, Hume's use of the term
Faustian Nazi figure is not what you imply, but much more
damning, like evil. Second, there is nothing at all Heroic
about Blicero. He fits no definition of hero. 

David Morris wrote:
> 
> 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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