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

[Otto]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist
Quackery


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>
> > >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.

Right, she's a victim too.

Otto