GR the Heresy Question

[Scott Badger]

Rob:
>Don't know if the delegate is necessarily Enzian, but it's certainly one of
>his posse. The Heresy Question would be the assorted Christ and Moses myths
>which have been built up around Enzian by the Zone-Hereros, wouldn't it?
>Enzian's one of the Counterforce's trump cards and great (non-)white hopes.
>The advertising exec. might just be telling the delegate that promoting
>Enzian as a new Saviour ain't gonna sell, and that maybe they should be
>working on a new marketing strategy if the Schwarzkommando is gonna come on
>board with the Counterforce. But the delegate is sticking to his guns, and
>to his faith. Meanwhile, the reader already knows that Enzian knows that
all
>the religious hoopla surrounding him is just a sham.


GR, 318:
    The Empty Ones can guarantee a day when the last Zone-Herero will die, a
final zero to a collective history fully lived. It has appeal.
    There is no outright struggle for power. It is all seduction and
counterseduction, advertising and pornography, and the history of the
Zone-Hereros is being decided in bed.
[....]
    Conversations between Ombindi and Enzian these days are thus a series of
commercial messages, with Enzian not so much mark as unwilling shill,
standing in for the rest of the tip, who may be listening and maybe not.

Like husband and wife arguing over the best route home.

The question of the "delegate" seems not so much whether it is Enzian, but
who does he represent.

Scott Badger

PS   Like me, I'll bet Pynchon can't draw for shit without dots to
connect...