MDMD Grief & Insanity

[argirios zias]

Well, I was thinking, perhaps overt hinking, what with all these bad lines 
being drawn and nobody's right if everybody's got a bomb, that Wicks is 
crazy. Well, I think Oediapa, and Zoyd, Slothrop, Stencil, and even
Benny, maybe most of the narrators of P's novels are…insane.

As regards dear Ben, I simply can't believe a man would leave a girl like 
Fina.

Anyway, we get twisted all up and around with Wicks, kinda like Stencil. We 
twist into subjunctive, into
the quest for what might have been but for remembrances disturbed and 
history tangling everything  up in the deep. Dive deep, Ishmael.

Isn't it possible that Wicks, who didn't get to attend Mason's funeral, nor 
his burial, is in a state of
delirium brought on by his grief? And that his not having attended Mason's 
burial, is the cause of his insanity?

We all have different ways of dealing with loss, with grief, with death. 
That's cool. It will help me to deal with all this madness, if I can talk 
about the madness in a fiction by Thomas R. Pynchon.

So, I will.

Gary


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