Pynchon's "knewspeak"

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> on 21/2/03 12:57 AM, P. Chevalier at Pierre.Chevalier at infm.ucl.ac.be wrote:
> 
> > Nope...
> > Enzian is more of a Nietzschean superman... A kind of meridional
> > Zarathoustra...
> > Blicero is just what Nazi fantasies tried to make of it...
> >
> >
> > At 06:49 20/02/2003 -0800, David Morris wrote:
> >
> >> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>> It's interesting too that Brownlie tries to bring Nietzsche into the mix.
> >> But, like so many before him, he can find no evidence that Pynchon has read
> >> Nietzsche.
> >>
> >> But one very important character, Blicero, seems to suggest Nietzche's
> >> superman, wouldn't you say?
> >>
> >> DM
> 
> Blicero's perhaps the most pathetic, if not anywhere near the least
> sympathetic, character in the novel.

Yes and no. Milton's Satan, as Milton made him (at least on the purely
Christian level, if no the political level)  is pathetic. But it's not
impossible to have sympathy for a an angel that falls because he is not
content with heavenly bliss and  aspires to equal the most high (an
oxymoronic thing to consider). His pride, his ambition, lands him in
hell because God is all powerful. He deceives his horrid crew (like Ahab
with great rhetoric) and the Mother of mankind, bringing death into the
world and all our woe with the loss of eden. So begins the history of
man. He's got to be a hero. Right? A fortunate fall for Adam, the coming
of Christ, these things are all down to Satan. He is the author of all.
Blicero, like Satan and Ahab, is a god-man. I like him. I admire him. I
pity him. He is a beautiful a character, perhaps Pynchon's most
interesting of all. But he's a Nazi. He's a bad guy. He's a killer. He 
worships Death and negates Life.