Pynchon's Badass

[Phil Wise]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: Pynchon's Badass


>
> >From: Terrance
> >
> >David Morris wrote:
> > > But the other aspect of the "Badass" is what links him to Blicero: the
> >Mutant, the Monster, the Repressed.  Blicero is a Mutant, a product of
the
> >Death System.  His goal is an END to the cycle of death, to transcend and
> >cross over.
> >
> >I can't agree, because what he says is,
> >
> >"I want to break out--to leave this cycle of infection and
> >death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I
> >will be gathered, inseparable, in the radiance of what we
> >would be come...." GR.724
> >
> >The "cycle of infection and death" is Earth's cycle (Rilke, not
Weissman's
> >misreading of Rilke), the cycle of life, of Gravity and the fecund force
>
> This is where our readings part on this subject.  I don't see the "cycle
of
> infection and death" which _Blicero_ refers to is that of Their System in
> which Father infect Sons in perpetuity all in the service of the Mad Bus
> Driver.  Your statement above that this cycle is "(Rilke, not Weissman's
> misreading of Rilke)" is illogical because this is Weissman speaking,
isn't
> it?  It would have to mean whatever Weissman thinks it means.  Blicero
wants
> to transcend the system which produced him (through annihilation it would
> seem), Their Death System.  At least that's how I see it.
>
Apologies for butting in here, but, given the fascist terror of the
corporeal body and their desire to transcend it (into a machine-like body,
be it an actual machine or the "machine" of the military, or in death this
purity of light W/B refers to) could it be that W/B is merely expressing his
fascism here?  In other words, that it isn't the "cycle of infection and
death" (i.e corporeal life) that is under contestation, but his reading of
it as merely this cycle - that it is a problem of reading (in a very broad
sense) the meaning of life?

It is 8:30 in the morning, and I've just climbed out of bed, so this could
be what you are saying anyway...

Regards
Phil


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