Pynchon's Mothers & Roger's Mother

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> Think it's only to his mother that he is known as Jeremy.
> Jessica thinks of him only as Beaver. Once Roger mistakening refers to him
> as Nutria but Jessica quickly corrects him "Beaver" she sez.

Right. That makes more sense,  doesn't it?  
He is Jessica's Beaver after all. GR121

Doesn't Pointsman  have a beaver 
on his helmet? 

Good knight, dear ladies,  good knight... hurry up please it's time....

		--T.S. Eliot



"The effects of the mother complex differ according to whether it
appears in a son or daughter. Typical effects on the son are
homosexuality and Don Juanism, and sometimes also impotence."

(*The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious,* Vol. 9,1, par.162).

Slothrop's mother complex seems to have manifest itself as Don Juanism
w/o impotence. 
Well, not a physical impotence that is. 

We are all of us, Pynchon too, impotent sheep. Forget it, go crazy,
amuse the children? 
What choice do we have? 

I think we all have tried to deal with this slow escalation of our
helplessness and  terror in the few ways open to us, from not thinking
about it to
going crazy from it. Somewhere on this spectrum of impotence is writing
fiction about it -- occasionally, as here offset to a more colorful
time and place." Slow Learner