P's Mothers & The Fatal Weakness (Flaw) GR.738
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 21 20:13:58 CDT 2001
David,
Assume our total ignorance and jump in with some ideas.
DM
>From: "David Gentle"
>
> > The fatal flaw (a term Pynchon took from Norman O. Brown's reading of
>Freud) is a division within the divided self (the FF of the Fatal Flaw or
>Weakness is personified as the Floundering four, each with their own gift/
>flaw deep in the heart Freudian spirit or mind of Modern man.
>
>Tangential: Having only read GR once and having not read any supplimentry
>material I'm curous as to how well the comic book reference in that
>sequence is known.
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