Seed

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jbor wrote: 

Some more comments, thoughts, questions:

David Seed: "To avoid the reader categorizing Blicero too
easily Pynchon
depicts him relativistically ... " (_Fictional Labyrinths_,
p. 172)

[[[I think what he means here is that we see Blicero from
various character perspectives. 
However, he does agree with your more relativistic, amoral
reading of the characters and their actions, sexual and so
on.]]]] 

[[[[And he says, 

The flight of Blicero's ultimate rocket dramatizes in its
bizarre apotheosis
three strands of desire: the will not master Nature( or
gravity specifically, the yearning to rise above the bounds
of human life, and the longing for death. FL.173]]]