VLVL Prairie and DL

[Ghetta Life]

>Terrance:
>
>She's the Rocket with a capital R
>
>And we know she dreams ... and in Pynchon's fictional worlds dreams are
>no longer private (Mondaugen)  or safe (The Secret Integration).
>
>Digression:
>
>Prairie is in some deep shit here. She says good night to a machine.
>That's not a good thing in a Pynchon novel.  And the machine says, good
>night to her ... "and may your sleep be in every way untroubled." VL.115
>see the end of TSI
>
>So who narrates this part of the story?
>
>Well, it's a Pynchon trick, dream mixed with radio (TSI) zero & one
>mixed with dream here and machine data or  spherics (V.), or cartoons
>(old man in CL49) or the Franz's movie dreams (GR)  or the guy who ties
>a balloon over his head in V. and watches TV nodding in and out of dream
>(V.) or Mason after falling off a horse or being haunted by the
>mysterious and never heard Indian language  ...  or and so on.
>
>Digression over
>
>Deep shit here ... Frenesi dreamed of a mysterious people's oneness ....
>page 117

Do Rockets dream?  The Rocket and Dynamo aren't autonomous, are they?  They 
are products of those who worship them.

> > Of course if all you say above is true, then the DL/Takeshi parnership 
>is also corrupt.  I don't see any of your characterization of the above 
>characters in the book.
>
>Which ones? I'll give you the page numbers if you ask.

Well, Sister Rochelle doesn't seem at all sinister or deceptive.  She seems 
like a good guy, and completely above board.  Ditto for DL and Takeshi.  In 
fact if there were any "special" characters in the book, I'd say it would be 
them.  But your analysis makes their buisiness into a racket.  Have troubled 
Thanatoids no hope?

Nobody's perfect, thank God, so I can't see how little flaws are subject to 
the intense criticism they seem to get from you.  Like what's so bad about a 
teenager working in an organic pizza shop?  Or kids helping the family make 
ends meet by catching crwafish.  Or giving your kids funky names (Pynchon 
gives all his babies funky names).  I just don't see it, but I never got 
this book.  It never held together for me.

Ghetta

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