VLVL the "Movement"

[Ghetta Life]

Good points re. the words "analysis" and "situation."  In GR, "analysis" is 
nearly presented as the root of all evil, and is associated with 
"pornographies" of life:  it recreates the world into a substitute able to 
be manipulated and controlled.  Calculus craeted the bomb.  These 
interlopers are thus not really any superior to the kids, and maybe could be 
called evil manipulators.  The spontaneity of the revolution at the Surf 
College is maybe its best characteristic:  innocence in all its lack of 
control.

Ghetta

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>It's pretty clear that Pynchon is representing these "Movement" interlopers 
>as sneering and superior. And, implicitly, and obviously so, they "began to 
>show up" to try and stir up the unrest and turn the emerging rebellion at 
>College of the Surf to their own agenda. (This is not to say that Weed and 
>PR3, like Ditzah and Zipi in the previous chapter, and the rest of 24fps, 
>are immune from Pynchon's satire.)
>
>"None of these kids had been doing any analysis."
>
>Cf.
>     "I don't want to get into a religious argument with you, absence
>     of sleep has Mexico more cranky today than usual, "but I wonder
>     if you people aren't a bit too -- well, strong, on the virtues of
>     analysis. I mean, once  you've taken it all apart, fine, I'll be
>     the first to applaud your industry. But other than a lot of bits
>     and pieces lying about, what have *you* said?" (GR 88)
>
>There's another passage about "Analysis and Control" that I just can't put 
>my finger on, and cf. also Blicero's epiphany about how "Europe came and 
>established its order of Analysis and Death" (GR 722).
>
>"Not only was nobody thinking about the real situation ... "
>
>Cf. Sidney Stencil's rejected pamphlet entitled "The Situation as
>N-Dimensional Mishmash" (V. 470).

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