Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist Quackery
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 5 16:14:43 CST 2004
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0009&msg=49186&sort=date
Ghetta Life wrote:
>
> I havn't seen this one, but it's nice to see that Rilke has been included
> into the subject matter. I'll keep my eyes open for it. Thanks.
>
> >From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> > > >Not sure what you mean by a default state of being.
> > >
> > > It is the condition of all human beings after "The Fall"
> >(consciousness).
> >
> >Postlapsarian Man on a quest to Salvation is imprisoned in his own
> >consciousness: Mind is cut off from the world and is thus incapable of
> >relating to the world adequately or with any satisfaction and so with
> >pornographies (Science & Technology mixed with corruptions of myth,
> >mystery, magic, religious ritual, sacrament, oral community rites, holy
> >grail, a plethora of quests for "salvation" ) Man Narcissistically
> >projects an Image of his Solipsistic imprisonment onto the world.
> >
> >See
> >
> >Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow : A Study of Its Conceptual Structure
> >and
> >of Rilke's Influence (American University Studies : Series Iv, English
> >Lan)
> >Charles Hohmann. (Out Of Print)
>
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