GR 'Streets'

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

Seems to me that GR isn't anti-astrology or anti-Christian exactly, but
that P uses and distorts such supernatural systems as a fabulist, much
in the same way that he also uses and distorts natural, technological
and enightenment systems in such things as Vaucanson's automata, the
Rocket State, Dutch chronometers, prosthetic medicine, etcetera. The
trans-animate and in-animate share equal billing with the animate and
the humane, and not particularly hopeful about anything except human
love and human friendship in the Here and Now of the story. He is
spinning a yarn and weaving a web using anything and everything to
hand, compounding a world not precisely congruent with our own in any
particular you might point to. He makes cotton candy out of excrement
and bile.

Yum.
Mark

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Why the army chaplains, why garrison-churches and not just simply
> soldiers
> praying? What's their "function" in the novel if not for pointing out
> how
> the "system," how "They" use the believes of simple people for
> sinister
> purposes?
> 
> I am deeply convinced that the novel is as anti-Christian as it is,
> for
> example, anti-Marxist or anti-astrological:
> 
> "For God's sake, next you'll be consulting horoscopes."
> "Hitler does."
> "Hitler is an inspired man. But you and I are employees, remember.  .
>  .  ."
> (33.8-12)


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo
http://search.yahoo.com