VLVL2 (9.5): "Down Again into the Corrupted World"

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> "'Just from your life pattern already, here's what I
> think.  Living as always let's say at a certain
> distance from the reality of others, you descended--'
>    "'I was taken!'
>    "'--you were brought--down again into the corrupted
> world, and instead of paying attention, taking the
> time, getting prepared, you had to be a reckless bitch
> and go rushing through the outward forms, so of course
> you blew it, what'd you expect?'" (VL, Ch. 9, p. 154)
> 
> Tres gnostique, non?  Er, oui ...



At the plot level, that corrupted world is Japan. Isn't it? It's 1978,
the gangs are spilling blood all over the streets and Takeshi, former
kamikaze addicted to speed, is calculating his mortuary moneys in zeroes
and ones, working with below some planetwide struggle (Cold War, Carter
Administration, Czech, Japan, Tibet ... Kutshusita).  Brock Vond is over
there at a convention. DL is over there, working for the mafia,
disguised as a Frenzy prostitute, after being sold at auction into white
slavery. Anyway, Minoru and Takeshi are looking for clues. They head
over to the Hilton to get information on the Czech initiator fragment. 
Again, GR stuff revisited. BV sends Takeshi into the sex/death trap. DL
impregnates him with death. He's a living time bomb. 
Death is inside him. SHIT! OH Brown? In America, business hasn't quite
corrupted everything. There is still That Prairie anyway. But DL is
sick. So is Sister. And they set up a partnership of death in America.
Not good. 




I was gonna quote a bit from Dana Medoro's book _The Bleeding of
America_ yesterday when Sophocles came up.  Jean-Joseph Groux on Oedipa.
The study is fascinating. in the GR section the study looks into one of
my favorite dialogues in GR (GR.56). You get Faulkner and Morrison in
the mix (there seems to be a trend now,  Faulkner, Morrison, Pynchon and
glad for that ...  seeing as TRP is an American and Morrison and
Melville and Hawthorne, his blood brothers and sisters). On Pynchon, V.,
CL49, and GR. Anyway, in the Introduction we read about the American
Myth ... Hawthorne ... Pyncheon ...House of Seven Gables ... drinking
blood. 

This study is desconstructionist in approach: it works from the concept
of Eve's curse and deconstructs the difference between curse and cure. I
demonstrate that the process of menstruation and its product, menstrual
blood, give rise to a range of multivalent symbols which unsettle the
demarcation between antithetical terms.