GR the Heresy Question

[jbor]

> 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.

I think that in the context of a single delegate to this Counterforce
Convention it doesn't much matter, that a detente would exist between the
two opposing factions within the Erdschweinhöhlers while terms are being
negotiated and set. In other words, there would be more trust amongst the
Schwarzkommando than towards an unknown and exterior (and seemingly
predominantly European or Western) organisation like the Counterforce.

I also get the impression that both the Herero who are loyal to Enzian and
those loyal to Ombindi do buy into the whole "Enzian as Saviour, Rocket as
Destiny" trip, that is such an article of faith with the Zone-Herero. I
don't think either Enzian or Ombindi actually buy the Enzian as Christ
"Heresy", however.
 
> PS   Like me, I'll bet Pynchon can't draw for shit without dots to
> connect...

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