pynchon-l-digest V2 #2173

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> The Oedipal situation in GR seems to have far more to do with the Father
> trying to kill the Son, and while the literary roots of this story go deep,
> in GR this may also have an origin a bit closer to home, 

Far more than? Than what? Than what I proposed? 

What do you make of the 40 years? 

"The fathers have no power today and never did, but because 40 years ago
we could not kill them..." 

I read that 40 years as referencing Nazism. 

And I think the fact that fathers never had power is the key. What power
didn't they have? They had never had it. Only Mothers had and have that
power. 

The fathers can't kill their sons. The sons can't kill the fathers. 

And who or what is to blame? 


Mother the war of course.