Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist Quackery

[Terrance]

> >What we see, time and again, is that the Crew (TWSC of V., All the people
> >Oedipa and Slothrop and Prairie and Dixon and Mason meet, are sick, but
> >their sickness is treated tenderly, they are and YOU are admonished,
> >laughed at and with,  by the text, because there is simply no way out. In
> >fact, they are bond together with their oppressors, the henchmen,  who able
> >to "synthesize and control" because they are useful switchmen at the Firm.
> 
> Yes, but when using these terms it is very easy to forget the micro in favor
> of the macro, and devolve into political arguments which ignore the
> fundamental issue: being human.
> 

Yes, a good example is "German Sickness" in the novel Gravity's Rainbow.
One could focus on Germans during Hitler's rise and Germany or even
Western Europe and Enlightenment and misread Pynchon. How one would
explain Marvy or Geli or countless other characters that simply won't
fit into these kinds of reading is beyond me, but it's quite common.
Blicero is also poor old Weissmann. Brock Vond is a man. Hector has a
heart.  Frenesi earns our pity.