A sketch of Pynchonian politics

[Jane O' Sweet]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- Jane O' Sweet <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > So on and on. The S&M relationship in Pynchon's fiction is a
> > religious bond. I hate to keep saying this, but it's too
> > important to be ignored.
> 
> But is it important enough for you to explain what you mean?


Benny needs a job, the Alligators want to die. He signs a
contract with them in the holy water, the Roman Catholic
holy baptismal waters of the sewer (in P's fiction even as
early as V. the tri-part heaven earth Olympus is inverted so
Benny is in sacred space, like a church if you believe in
that,  I mean ***really believe***) to kill the Alligators,
they will be passive, remember (mixed in with his TV Western
heroics) when Benny kills one he calls the Alligator Baby
and
says something like, your not supposed to fight back or bite
back or some such, passive white virgin and the man with a
gun, S&M and this bond is always in P's fiction a
perversion, corruption, distortion, usurpation, of the
culture/people/religion, like the christian sickness or the
corruption of the Herero religion or the song that Tech
writes down or W. Slothrop's Judas heresy infected by
Newtonian winds, but the important point is, that what binds
master and slave, destroyed and destroyer, Herero and von
Trotha, Weissmann and Pokler, Slothropn and Malcolm, so
on...is a religious bond deep in the very Spirit of Man,
deep in the Modern mind, deep in the SOUL, the Rocket, the
Dynamo is the soul of the church, the state, the empire, of
Modern MAN, and when ever two are gathered in its name in
Pynchon's fiction, there will be S and M. We define
each other. No Brock w/o Frenesi. No Weissmann w/o Slothrop.
No Sarah w/o Fopple.