slothrop's cousin

[Prsamsa at aol.com]

I also find Kafka's characters somehow "boxed in" or less and less in charge
of their own lives.  But, this was a startling revelation.  

Also nice, I have a day off, and was reading a bit of Ursula LeGuin, who is
fairly well-known as a theoritician for anarchism.  ("The Dispossessed"
is her novel on that.)  And when I feel
too held back by systems known and unknown, I can pick up "The Ginger
Man" by JP Donleavy, and rejoice in Sebastian Dangerfield, a  character who 
somehow moons and moans his way his way to personal freedom.  

And doesn't Pynchon imply that one cost of freedom is turning a blind eye
toward all the negative that could happen, all that may be happening, but 
which we can
only point a finger at or draw a diagram of?  That Byron the Bulb can light
the way for countless others, but there will always be shadows of ignorance,
arrogance and profit-uber-alles that are best left undisturbed, lest they 
hold
up our metaphysical pilgrims from making some accomodation, some needed
compromises with the world-as-is enough to feel free, or trudge toward 
some ideal of it.

Oh yeah,
it's nice to be off work.  Thinking of camping solo in the Superstititions 
once
temp's hit the 70-80's.  

"Samsa",
Perry.  
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