Venery by reason of the wind

[cathy ramirez]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Bandwraith wrote:
> 
> > But
> > Mason has left the house, so to speak. He can
> > see the shape of things to come from an outside
> > pespective, as sick and paranoid as he might be.
> 
> Yes. I think the smell Ben Franklin smells when he
> visits Mason's house is
> the smell of death. And, despite what Mary thinks
> (re. "his Madness, which
> grows ever less hopeful" 761), I don't think the
> narrative means to suggest
> that Mason is insane at the end.


I agree. Is the machine connection that Mason
suggests, of the named and charted (taking Blake's
term for the poem London etc) above and the boundry
lines below, madness? And I wonder about Tim's madness
too. 
Is Tim mad at this point? Or is he a dead satirist,
now Brannigan's ghost? A dithyrambic from the forest
mixing the living and the dead with desire? 

All reminds me of King Lear and Hamlet. And Eliot too.



But you've got me thinking about my favorite Pynchon
tale, "TSI" too. Tox, so the folks think, fancies
himself a Moses leading the people out of the City,
out of captivity. 

Tim and Grover and 80N. 

But what of the people already living in the promised
land? The "Canaanites" and so on. And what of those
that hope to integrate later?  Captivity. Slavery.
Frienship.  A magical, innocent, childish, secret
integration,  captive in the prisons of all that
adults abandon and trash, With their language, naming,
laws, police, and terror. Can Mason be mad if dreams
are no longer safe, but those attenuated ghosts return
in the poet's song? 



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