"your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/10/2003 2:00:12 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:
> 
> 
> > It's a partial answer to Roger's famous meditation
> on WHAT THE WAR
> > WANTS. p.131
> > 
> > My mother is the war declares Roger . . . . P.39
> > 
> > 
> 
> What about dad? I mean w/r/t the metaphor, or
> whatever the proper
> rhetorical term for substituting one's female parent
> for "the war" might be.
> Unless Roger's was a virgin birth, "the war" had to
> mate with something
> (or someone) in order to conceive him. The god of
> fiction, perhaps?
> 
> respectfully


While Roger's statement is obviously a desperate one,
he also calls his rival, Beaver, the War, the idea
(metaphor, motif, theme, whatever...) does work its
way through the novel. 
For the Elite, Them/They/The Firm/ and for some
characters like Blicero, the War-as-creator of the
fallen gnostic world (dualism is a fundamental idea of
Gnosticism) is gnostic. Pynchon also includes
"gnostic" Jewish mysticism. There is no Father God. He
has not simply created a mechanical war and set it
turning and turned away. The War, as we discover is a
product of parthenogenesis. 


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