m&m's in V
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 14 20:35:03 CDT 2004
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From: Joseph Tracy
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Subject: m&m's in V
posted this before but added another question or2. hoping for response on last one in particular.
Notes on 1st reading of Mortality and Mercy in Venice
Leaving the party before the fun begins.
So Siegel, pursuing nice jewish girl (who is also member WSC)
in belated accord with gentile mother's advice gets appointed
father confessor at whole sick crew party (early version
WSC)in Washington D.C. Pig fetus is tacked to door( this ain't
the innocent lambs blood that might ward off the Angelo of
death, that host will be making his exodus in the nick of
time.
The party is full of weirdish cosmopolitans looking for cheap
good time,booze, infatuation, confession, absolution, ... and
a dark skinned primitive ojibwe( with unlikely name of Irving
Loon...Washington Irving, or crazy as a...?) brought into D.C as trophy sex toy,
curiosity . He seems locked in silent estrangement, but is
released by vocalization of demonic/ angelic word/spirit
"Windigo". Having offered questionable absolution to 2 women
and summoned the angel of death, the judaeo -christian,
freudian/ jesuit little machiavel, prophet/priest/schmuck Cleanth
Siegel lets his people( himself) go before the shooting
starts.
Is Artist's(Shakespeare's) ,Pynchon's role to play god and bring divine
judgement on unworthy brought into question or confirmed?
Is Lucy/light boringly innocent or boringly guilty, laden with
sin or laden only with useless knowledge, last glimmer of light or labyrinth
leading to Minotaur?Lucifer or Margarethe.
Each encounter similarly filtered through Siegel's 3rd person omniscient confessor role and more boringly predictable than last
until Windigo released. These people were self absorbed but they had nothing on Siegel.
I would like to hear a bit of discussion of the pig thing in P's writing.
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at earthlink.net
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