MDDM Ch. 67 Various

[David Morris]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>Otto wrote:
>
> > 1. Is it really more far out than naming a "German" Herero Enzian or 
>giving GW's house-slave the Jewish name Gershom?
>
>The whole thing with the naming of Enzian by Weissmann after the Rilke poem 
>is spelt out in the text. Gershom is a much more fleshed out 
>characterization in the novel,

Wha-aa?!!!

>and there is that Gershom Nimmo [...]

Who???

Enzian is one of Pynchon's *MOST* "fleshed out" characters, second only to 
Slothrup.  Enzian is Slothrup's soul-brother.  Slothrup is Pynchon's MOST 
"fleshed out" character, only because he is the most extendedly central.  
Enzian is also MOST central because he is the rebel-disciple of The Beast, 
the child-eating mother/father.

Gershom is wonderful, but Enzian is sublime.

David Morris


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