Pynchon's Badass

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Terrance wrote:
> This relationship can place humans in a frightful
> predicament and when confronted by an amplified, multiplied,
> more-than- human force, humans "in seeking some equalizer,
> turn if only in imagination, in WISH (my caps), to the
> Badass-the djinn, the golem, the hulk, the superhero-who
> will resist what otherwise would overwhelm us."
> 
> Pynchon's Badass, I think it is safe to say he is talkin
> street here,  is a "bad ass mother fucker," and I can think
> of no character in P's fiction, maybe Brock Vond in VL, that
> is not a "bad ass mother fucker" than Blicero.

What does Blicero resist? He has transferred all of his love to the rocket.

--
Eric R



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